Leg of an elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)

Aepyornis maximus

Origin: Southern Madagascar

The name elephant bird comes from Marco Polo from his book Rukh. Étienne de Flacourt, a French governor of Madagascar in the 1640s and 1650s described giant ostriches believed to have seen the elephant bird. This means that it was not yet extinct at that time.

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