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Which bird laid

the biggest egg?

Eggs of the extinct elephant bird were up
to 13 in (34 cm) long. Elephant birds lived in

Madagascar until a few hundred years ago.

Emu
Emu eggs are
unusually dark.
They look
like a huge Hummingbird eggs
avocado, are the smallest bird Rusty tinamou
at 5 in eggs. This one is
(13 cm) from a ruby-throated
high.
A kiwi is 20 times hummingbird.
smaller than an
emu, but its eggs
are almost the Chicken
same size. Hummingbird

Kiwi The most familiar
Quail Cormorant
Tawny owl eggs are laid by
the domestic
King penguin Common sandpiper chicken.
FAST FACTS
Elephant bird eggs are bigger than those 24 in
of most dinosaurs. Even the eggs of (60 cm)
sauropods (the biggest dinosaurs) are
no more than 8 in (20 cm) long. 13 in
Recent digs in China, however, (33 cm)
appear to have turned up giant 8 in
eggs of two-legged dinosaurs (20 cm)
similar to Oviraptor.
Elephant bird Sauropod up to Giant Oviraptor
10 ft (3 m) tall 120 ft (36 m) long 26 ft (8 m) long

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