Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived
- Written by Alicia Grealy, Research Projects Officer, CSIRO
Gifford Miller, Author providedMadagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record.
A new study published today in Nature Communications used ancient molecules extracted from...





