The egg was startlingly large.
An illustration of dwarf emus and sea elephants at Sea Elephant Bay on King Island. This illustration was inspired by a woodcut print of the bay from the early 1800s.
(Image credit: Julian P. Hume)
The impressively large egg of a dwarf emu a short and stocky bird that went extinct around 200 years ago has been unearthed from a sand dune on an island between Australia and Tasmania, a new study finds.
The cracked and empty eggshell is missing a few pieces, but it s a rare and unique discovery, said study lead researcher Julian Hume, a paleontologist and research associate with the National History Museum, London. It s the only known nearly complete egg from King Island of
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