Elephant bird The bones of these domesticated fowl have been found in subfossil sites in the island (MacPhee and Marx, 1997: 188), such as Ambolisatra (Madagascar), where "Mullerornis" sp. and "Aepyornis maximus" have been reported. Also reported by these authors, ratite remains have been found in west and south west Madagascar, at Belo-sur-Mer ("A. medius", "Mullerornis rudis"), Bemafandry ("M. agilis") and Lamboharana ("Mullerornis" sp.). Recently human tool marks have been found on elephant bird bones dating to approximately 10,000 BC. This not only vastly extends the range of human existence on Madagascar's prehistoric past, but suggests a more complex relationship between these
Borneo elephant Museum of Natural History disagreed in 1943, and placed all Sundaic elephants in the subspecies "Elephas maximus sumatrensis". In 1950, Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala described a subspecies "Elephas maximus borneensis", taking as his type an illustration in the National Geographical Magazine. In 2003, the debate was re-opened by a suggestion that the introduced Sulu elephants and the north-east Borneo population might have descended from the now extinct Javan elephant, which was named "Elephas maximus sondaicus" by Deraniyagala. This hypothesis is based on missing archaeological evidence of long term elephant habitation in Borneo, a corroboration in folklore and that elephants have