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| The researchers haven't produced an estimate of the terror bird's weight, but it almost surely exceeded the weights of known elephant birds and moas, says team member Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles. More heavy-handed was Madagascar, 2002, a rendering of an elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) bound with rope being led down a sand dune toward a "tall" ship anchored in a shallow harbor. Standing more than twice the height of an ostrich, it was known to the natives of Madagascar as the elephant bird. |
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