Aepyornis

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Aepyornis

a very large, flightless, recently extinct bird from Madagascar. It was larger than an ostrich and the egg content was in excess of 9 litres.

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When the Time Traveller ventures into the future, he enters a symbolic realm, much like Moreau's island, or the atoll of the Aepyornis, or, indeed, the primitive landscape of prehistoric Britain.

Primitive modernity: H. G. Wells and the prehistoric man of the 1890s

39 On which island did the extinct bird Aepyornis, 10 feet high and laying two-gallon eggs, live?

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Madagascar's Aepyornis Maximus, extinct in the 16th century, was once the largest bird in the world.