The species of 10-foot-tall birds (known as Aepyornis and Mullerornis) weighed up to 1,100-pounds. The bones were found in 2009 at the site of Madagascar’s Christmas River. Cut marks and ...

Table 1 Differences between cloned PCR products and direct sequences of moa, Mullerornis and extant taxa Minimal divergence dates for the ratite lineages were estimated using the geological ...

Elephant birds are an extinct family of flightless birds found only on the island of Madagascar and comprising the genera Aepyornis and Mullerornis. The bird (pictured, left) was a terrifying ...

The elephant birds, Aepyornis and Mullerornis, lived among other remarkable species on the island, including giant lemurs, which also died out. There are a number of theories about why and when ...