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'Biggest bird' dispute put to nest

China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-27 07:53

PARIS - After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said on Wednesday they have finally solved the riddle of the world's largest bird.

For 60 million years the colossal, flightless elephant bird - Aepyornis maximus - stalked the savanna and rain forests of Madagascar until it was hunted to extinction around 1,000 years ago.

In the 19th century, a new breed of buccaneering European zoologist obsessed over the creature, pillaging skeletons and fossilized eggs to prove they had discovered the biggest bird on Earth.

'Biggest bird' dispute put to nest

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