elephant bird

基本解釋

At 10ft tall and weighing 1, 000lbs, the elephant bird - related to ostriches and emus - is the largest bird ever to have lived.
高近10英尺、重約1000英鎊的象鳥，與鴕鳥、鴯鹋屬近親，是迄今發(fā)現(xiàn)的地球上存活過的最大的鳥。
They also got DNA from the egg ofthe elephant bird of Madagascar; at 160 times the volume of a chicken'segg, it is the largest bird's egg known.
他們也從一只象鳥蛋中分離出了DNA；這只蛋是雞蛋體積的160倍，是已知最大的鳥蛋。
The elephant bird evolved at a time when birds ruled the earth and probably existed on Madagascar for 60 million years until dying out in the 17th century.
象鳥起源于地球上鳥類的繁盛期，據(jù)推測在馬達加斯加地區(qū)存活了近6000萬年，直至17世紀(jì)這一物種才滅絕。