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This Gargantuan Bird Weighed as Much as a Sports Car

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The Elephant Bird is the biggest bird to set its scaly foot down on planet Earth. They lived in Madagascar 30 million years ago and were mostly herbivorous, none of them flew. Their size ranged from an ostrich to a smart car-sized femur.

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