Name - Aepyornis

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:73164 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Aepyornis Geoffroy 1850

• Aepyornis Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1851

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Recent Publications

• What did Hadropithecus Eat, and Why Should Paleoanthropologists Care?
• Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna.
• Early illustrations of Aepyornis eggs (1851-1887): from popular science to Marco Polo's roc bird.
• Simultaneous extinction of Madagascar's megaherbivores correlates with late Holocene human-caused landscape transformation.
• Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird.

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