Analysis of bones from now-extinct elephant birds could shed new light on the fate of the giant fowls. A team of scientists led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) studied skeletons of the huge ...

Towering over nine feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, the aepyornis has a pointy beak and powerful talons. Sometimes called "flightless giants," the birds lived more than 1,200 years ago and ...

The past year has been a big one for very public e-discovery failures. While they may have been novelties for general headline news, these mistakes are nothing new to those who have been working in ...

hat a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast of Madagascar. Credit: Gifford Miller hat a whole Aepyornis egg ...

An elephant died in Tamil Nadu, India, after scavenging at a trash heap. Veterinarians who tried to save the animal found plastic bags and aluminum foil in its intestines during a necropsy, the Hindu ...

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VALLEJO (BCN) -- Six Flags Discovery Kingdom employees were sad to say goodbye to their beloved Asian elephant, Taj, who died on Monday at age 71, making her the oldest elephant in a North American ...

Taj, the oldest Asian elephant in North America and an alumnus of Circus Vargas, has died at Vallejo”s Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, it was announced today. She was 71. Over the past several weeks, the ...

Taj, the oldest Asian elephant in North America and an alumnus of Circus Vargas, has died at Vallejo’s Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, it was announced Tuesday. She was 71. Over the past several weeks, ...

Taj, the oldest Asian elephant in North America and an alumnus of Circus Vargas, has died at Vallejo’s Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, it was announced Tuesday. She was 71. Over the past several weeks, ...