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The upcoming Science and Natural History auction hosted by Christie’s London will be putting a host of rare and unusual delights under the hammer later this spring. None more so than a near-complete ...

The near-complete skeleton of a dodo bird is up for auction at Christie’s, with estimates expecting it to sell up to over $750,000. Apart from being a curious find, the dodo bird’s remains shares a ...

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

A previously unknown species of elephant bird was recently discovered on the northeastern side of Madagascar and was identified solely from its ancient eggshells Surface scatter of Aepyornis eggshell ...

What humans don’t know about the massive elephant bird could fill a book. And even what we know might need some serious revision. New information published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...