Competition for the title of Largest Bird That Ever Lived has been fierce. Scientists know from the fossils of now-extinct “elephant birds” that Madagascar was once home to long-necked, flightless ...
Early human settlers are believed to be the reason why the Madagascar elephant bird went extinct. Now, researchers found evidence that humans might have been on the island 6,000 years earlier than ...
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ...
Around 10,500 years ago, humans on the island of Madagascar took stone blades to a giant elephant bird. Without realizing it, these ancient people did far more than butcher a corpse when they chopped ...