Image An artist's impression of an extinct elephant bird. A new study has identified a member of one genus of the birds as the largest that ever lived. Credit Jaime Chirinos/Zoological Society of LondonHistory has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. But a new study seeks to restore the elephant bird’s heavyweight title. Over the centuries, scientists have competed to collect and display the largest elephant bird bones.

Source: New York Times September 26, 2018 16:27 UTC