Egg laid by great elephant bird of Madagascar compared to a hen's egg Photo: JANE MINGAY From The Telegraph:
Towering 10 feet into the air and weighing more than half a ton, it was the biggest bird that ever lived until French colonists wiped it out more than three hundred years ago.
But the giant elephant bird of Madagascar could be resurrected after scientists discovered how to extract DNA from ancient egg shells.
Genetic material from the bird along with extinct emus of Australia and moas of New Zealand have been collected by a new technique.
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