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Madagascar’s elephant bird died out around Shakespeare’s time.

So it’s a little weird that two eggs were found in Western Australia in 1930 and 1993.

Did they float there? No one knows.

February 10, 2006December 7, 2010 | Oddities · Science & Math

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