The egg, belonging to the extinct elephant bird,
Aepyornis, is more than a foot long, larger than any known dinosaur egg.
"In fact it is largest egg ever recorded and
engineers have calculated that structurally and functionally, it is impossible
for an egg to be any larger,” he said.
The egg is big enough to hold the contents of seven
ostrich eggs, 100 chicken eggs or 12,000 hummingbird eggs. Extinct for about
500 years, elephant birds are believed to have lived in Madagascar and looked
like a gigantic ostrich.
They grew to more than three meters in height and weighed about half tons.
Biggest and largest egg picture