Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1911 — Egg, Aged 400. [ARTICLE]

Egg, Aged 400.

New York. —The largest egg in the world, eight times the size of an ordinary ben’s egg, Is one of the latest acquisitions of the American Museum of Natural History. It would probably not be classified even by an unscrupulous dealer as "strictly fresh,” for the scientists declare it was laid more than 400 years ago. It was popularly known in Madagascar, whence it came, as the product of the “flying elephant,” an extinct species of roc known as the Aepyornls Maximus. The egg is 2 feet 2 Inches aipund Its shortest circumference.