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A very rare and spectacular reconstructed Elephant Bird egg from Madagascar

A very rare and spectacular reconstructed Elephant Bird egg from Madagascar

  • Country: Madagascar
  • Period: Pre 17th Century
  • Material: Egg shell
  • Size: circumference 82 x 68 cm
  • Weight: 1,628 gram
  • The picture with the 3 eggs are from an ostrich and a chicken
Object number: T18068
€ 6.000,00
More from : Madagascar

  • Scientific name of the Elephant bird is Aepyornis Maximum
    The Aepyornis is an extinct giant bird, lived in Madagascar that could reach up to 3 meters in height and weigh over 500 kg.
  • More than 90% of the pieces that compose it are part of the same egg, small parts of other specimens have been added.
  • This egg is large enough to contain 7 ostrich eggs, 1280 chicken eggs, or 12,000 hummingbird eggs. 
  • For more information see:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird

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