Replica Elephant Bird Egg At Buffalo Museum Turns Out To Be The Real Deal

Diane Christiansen
Mon, 14 May 2018 12:53:56 -0700

One would think that an elephant bird egg, the largest laid by any vertebrate ever — including dinosaurs and ancient reptiles — would be hard to miss for 80 years. Yet, that is precisely what Paige Langle at New York’s Buffalo Museum of Science discovered recently while inputting the institution’s extensive collections, many of which only exist on cards and ledgers, into the museum’s computer system.