Other baby elephant names in the vote included two other Texas flower-themed names: Yellow Rose and Black-eyed Susan. After ...

The newest baby at the Fort Worth Zoo officially has a name. After opening up voting to the public, the female Asian elephant ...

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

Towering over nine feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, the aepyornis has a pointy beak and powerful talons. Sometimes called "flightless giants," the birds lived more than 1,200 years ago and ...

Meet Lady Bird, the charming baby elephant at Fort Worth Zoo, named by 18,000 fans, honoring Lady Bird Johnson and already ...

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

Now that's a big bird! Research from the University of Colorado Boulder and an Australian university revealed a new lineage of elephant bird that used to roam Madagascar, and could help scientists ...

The Fort Worth Zoo says its first Asian elephant calf since 2013 has a name — Lady Bird or Birdie for short. Late last month, ...

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

The elephant bird egg is in perfect condition – being intact with no cracks at all. Like a chicken egg, it is oval and cream-colored. But that is probably where the similarities stop. Size-wise, the ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is inviting the public to help name the new member of the Asian elephant herd. The female calf was born to ...