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elephant bird
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elephant bird
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for aepyornis
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Noun1.elephant birdelephant bird - huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar
aepyornis
flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
genus Aepyornis - type genus of the Aepyornidae: elephant birds


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The researchers haven't produced an estimate of the terror bird's weight, but it almost surely exceeded the weights of known elephant birds and moas, says team member Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles.
Big bird terrorized South America by Science News
For example, people arrived on Madagascar about 2,200 years ago--also a time of worldwide climate stability--and within a millennium, the island's hippopotamuses, elephant birds, and many species of lemurs went extinct.
Caribbean extinctions: climate change probably wasn't the culprit by Perkins, S. / Science News
It also enables the researchers to consider large animals that went extinct only recently, including mammoths and lions in North America, saber-toothed tigers in South America, and elephant birds on Madagascar.
Move over, Leo. Give me more elbowroom by Perkins, S. / Science News
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