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Problem:When humans first arrived on the island of Madagascar around 1500 years ago, they encountered an array of remarkable species that have since gone extinct: gorilla-sized lemurs, giant tortoises, tiny hippos and a huge, long-necked, flightless bird that lumbered through Madagascar’s forests and laid the largest eggs of any known vertebrate, including dinosaurs. 
  
 The eggs of the Aepyornis, also known as the elephant bird, were a highly valuable food source for Madagascar’s human settlers. With a volume roughly equal to that of 150 chicken eggs, a single elephant bird egg could feed multiple families. Humans pillaged the elephant birds’ nests, which likely played a role in driving the animals towards extinction. Today, few of the bird’s gargantuan eggs survive; fewer than 40 are known to exist in public institutions. So staff at the Buffalo Museum of Science were nothing short of thrilled when they found an intact, foot-long elephant bird egg hiding in the museum’s vast collections. 
  
 The Buffalo Museum of Science has been accruing its collection for well over a century and is currently in the process of updating its catalog, some of which still exists on cards and ledgers. While inputting catalog data into the museum’s computer system, Paige Langle, the collections manager of zoology, opened a cabinet that hadn’t been looked in for quite some time. Inside was an enormous, cream-colored egg. It measured 12 inches long, 28 inches in circumference and weighed more than three pounds. It was also labeled as a model. 
  
 Langle, however, immediately suspected that the egg was “too realistic to be a model,” she tells Smithsonian.com. “I tried to shrug it off, but the more closely I looked at the surface of the eggshell and felt the weight of the egg, the more I kept thinking this has to be real.” 
  
 She was right. Searching deeper in the collections, she found a replica of the elephant bird egg that was obviously the model in question. Museum staff then looked through the institution’s archives and found records indicating that the museum had purchased a sub-fossilized elephant bird egg from a London purveyor of taxidermy specimens in 1939. They also found a letter written by a curator at the time, who listed various objects that he wanted to acquire for an exhibit on birds. One of those objects was a an elephant bird egg. 
  
 “From what we could tell, he mailed this list to all kinds of dealers all over the world, several of them in London,” says Kathryn Leacock, the museum’s director of collections. “A couple of them wrote back and said, ‘Oh no, you're not going to get one of those. They're kind of expensive.’ Fortunately he didn't let that deter him.” 
  
 Museum staff sent the specimen to SUNY Buffalo State to be radiographed and authenticated. Conservation experts there not only confirmed that the egg was real, but were also able to determine that it had been fertilized. They could make out the yolk sac and, Leacock says, “white fragments” that may point to the beginnings of a developing bird. 
  
 The 40 or so elephant bird eggs that are owned by public institutions exist in varying states of completeness. The National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., has an intact sub-fossilized elephant bird egg, and inside is an embryonic skeleton. But other institutions “just have fragments of the shell,” Leacock says. (It is hard to know how many elephant bird eggs are held in private collections; David Attenborough has one, and in 2013, another sold for $100,000 at a Christie’s auction in London.) 
  
 Leacock hopes that the newfound specimen at the Buffalo Science Museum will prove valuable to experts who are interested in the elephant bird. There were several species of this massive creature. The largest towered 10 feet high and weighed around 1,000 pounds. These magnificent creatures died out relatively quickly once humans came to Madagascar; the last sighting of an Aepyornis was in the 17th century. 
  
 It is not entirely clear why the birds went extinct, but anthropologist Kristina Guild Douglass said in an interview published on Yale’s website that “the answer is somewhere in the combination of climate change, changes in vegetation patterns, and human predation.” 
  
 “From my excavations,” she added, “human predation seems to be limited to egg-poaching.” 
  
 The elephant bird egg at the Buffalo Museum of Science has not been on display since the 1940s or 50s, Leacock says. The staff plans to feature the relic in an exhibition titled “Rethink Extinct,” which explores major episodes of extinction, from the age of the dinosaur to the present day. 
  
 “It's super, super cool to have this [egg] in Buffalo, and hope the community will be proud that we are one of a very, very few museums that have this as our cultural heritage,” Leacock says. “We're just very excited.” ||||| It's a rare egg and among the biggest in the world. But because it was mislabeled for decades, no one at the Buffalo Museum of Science even knew what they had. 
  
 What the museum has is a fully-intact elephant bird egg. 
  
 After decades of being out of view – possibly since the 1940s or '50s – the egg will be displayed in the museum's Rethink Extinct gallery starting May 1. 
  
 The cream-colored, oval-shaped egg measures 1-foot long, and 2 feet 4 inches in circumference. It tips the scale at 3 pounds and 5 ounces. 
  
 "It's the biggest egg laid by any vertebrate ever," said Kathryn Leacock, the museum's director of collections. 
  
 The egg from the flightless bird species is among the fewer than 40 or so left in public institutions in the world. 
  
 Credit Paige Langle, collections manager of zoology, for realizing the Buffalo museum is among them. She was updating the museum's catalog from ledgers and cards to a digital format when she came upon the egg. It was inside a cabinet with a tag indicating it was a cast. 
  
 "When I saw the egg, it was so much bigger than any other eggs in our collection," Langle said. 
  
 The museum has over 1,000 eggs in its vast collection of 700,000 items. Most of the items – the industry standard is 95 percent – are stored in the building's repository. 
  
 "It had so much detailing and pitting, and the color was beautiful. It looked too realistic to be a model," she said. 
  
 Langle found a cast elephant egg in a separate area later the same day, but it looked like a model. 
  
 "When I went back and looked at the first egg, I just thought, 'This has to be real,' " Langle said. 
  
 The museum turned to SUNY Buffalo State's art conservation department to find out. The curators carefully boxed the egg in foam and drove it to Buff State. 
  
 "It's a good thing the Scajaquada is only 30 miles per hour," Leacock said. 
  
 Jiuan Jiuan Chen, the department's professor of conservation imaging, suggested using radiography on the egg. The imaging technique uses a beam of X-rays to see inside. The radiography images showed the egg is not a model and may have been fertilized. 
  
 "Specs of white" could indicate the beginnings of a developing bird, Leacock said. 
  
 The discovery only made the drive back on the Scajaquada with the precious cargo more nerve-rattling, she said. 
  
 Elephant birds, most likely named for their thick legs, grew to 10 feet tall and weighed between 770 and 1,100 pounds. The birds went extinct in the 17th century. 
  
 The Buffalo museum acquired the elephant egg in 1939 from a London taxidermist, who purchased it on the island of Madagascar, where the birds lived in a tropical rainforest. The museum bought the egg for $92 from Edward Gerrard & Sons of London, according to archival records. 
  
 "Ninety-two dollars in 1939 was not cheap," Leacock said. 
  
 Museum staff also found a letter written by a curator at the time, in which an elephant bird egg was listed among the items he wanted to acquire for an exhibition on birds. 
  
 The nearest elephant bird egg – found floating in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar – is at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. 
  
 "We are super excited that the Buffalo Museum of Science is in that select group," Leacock said. 
  
 Leacock said the inventorying and cataloging effort could turn up more surprises. 
  
 "Lost, hidden or misidentified artifacts and specimens are not uncommon in museums that have been collecting for centuries," Leacock said. "The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences has been collecting since 1861, and as we continue to care for the collection, there is always more to learn and discover." ||||| A gigantic egg from a massive extinct bird that was sitting in a storage area at a New York museum unbeknownst to scientists is now receiving more recognition. 
  
 The foot-long egg from an elephant bird is fully intact and weighs three pounds, 5 ounces, the Buffalo Museum of Science said in a statement. It was “mislabeled as a model due to the rarity of this type of egg,” but the error was discovered as staffers were doing a fresh inventory and catalog of its pieces. 
  
 “Lost, hidden or misidentified artifacts and specimens are not uncommon in museums that have been collecting for centuries, and we are thrilled to rediscover this rare egg in our collection,” Director of Collections Kathryn Leacock said in the museum statement. “The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences has been collecting since 1861, and as we continue to care for the collection, there is always more to learn and discover.” 
  
 As the museum explained, “cast eggs are commonplace in museum collections,” so the team reached out to experts who radiographed the specimen to confirm its authenticity. 
  
 “Further investigation into the archival record revealed the egg was purchased from Edward Gerrard & Sons of London in 1939,” according to the museum statement. 
  
 The Buffalo Museum of Science 
  
 That firm included people who were taxidermists, made anatomical models and dealt in artifacts particularly from the Pacific area. 
  
 Elephant birds were about 10 feet tall and weighed close to 1,000 pounds. Their massive eggs were the equivalent of several dozen chicken eggs and they may have gotten their common name from their broad legs. 
  
 The flightless bird species, which was found in Madagascar, went extinct hundreds of years ago, although when exactly that happened has been the subject of some debate. Some put the last recorded elephant bird sighting at a point in the 1600s. 
  
 They may have died out from a combination of factors, including environmental changes and humans poaching their eggs. 
  
 The Buffalo museum bills its newly discovered historical specimen as “one of the largest eggs ever laid by a vertebrate animal.” It is making its debut on May 1 as part of the museum’s Rethink Extinct exhibit. 
  
 There are fewer than 40 intact elephant bird eggs in public institutions around the world, the museum said. 
  
 Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Department at SUNY Buffalo State 
  
 Buffalo Museum of Science |||||
Solution:
The Buffalo Museum of Science has been sitting on a rare find. A collections manager with the museum discovered an elephant bird egg nestled away in a cabinet for more than half a century and erroneously labeled as a cast. The egg is 1 foot long, more than 2 feet in circumference, and in pristine condition. "It's the biggest egg laid by any vertebrate ever," Director of Collections Kathryn Leacock tells the Buffalo News—and that includes dinosaurs, notes the Smithsonian, which reports the egg's volume is equivalent to that of about 150 chicken eggs. Convinced the specimen looked too real to be a model, the museum brought the egg to conservation experts at SUNY Buffalo State who radiographed and authenticated it. The X-rays also revealed a yolk sac and specks of white material, indicating the egg had been fertilized, with the white bits possibly the early stages of a developing bird. Elephant birds, which became extinct in the 17th century, could grow to a height of 10 feet and weigh as much as 1,100 pounds. The flightless birds were found on Madagascar and probably died out due to a combination of factors, reports Newsweek: The giant eggs were attractive to poachers, and environmental changes may have sealed their fate. Museum records suggest that the egg was purchased from a London collector in 1939. "Lost, hidden, or misidentified artifacts and specimens are not uncommon in museums that have been collecting for centuries," Leacock said in a news release. The egg, one of fewer than 40 held by public institutions, will be on display at the museum starting in May. (This US museum agreed to stop displaying a soldier's skull.)