这枚由已经灭绝的“马达加斯加象鸟”在十七世纪产下的蛋，也是目前最大的蛋，包括目前已发现的恐龙蛋。将在切尔西古董展上出售，标价5000英镑。
关于马达加斯加象鸟：
象鸟又叫隆鸟，主要生活在世界第四大岛—非洲马达加斯加岛的森林中。“隆鸟”的意思即是“高高凸起的鸟”。隆鸟比恐鸟还要高2米，比现在世界第一大鸟—鸵鸟就更高了，在300多年以前，可称得上世界第一大鸟。就连隆鸟的蛋也比后两种鸟的大许多，鸵鸟蛋平均约1.76公斤，相当于200多只鸡蛋那么重。
隆鸟数量本来一直不多。到了17世纪，马达加斯加岛的居民数量已增至以前的十几倍，他们加快了开发自然、掠夺自然资源的进度。大片的森林被砍伐，变成了家田，使隆鸟无家可归，许多隆鸟因此死掉了。
1649年，是当地居民能够捕杀到隆鸟的最后一年。自此以后，人类再也没有发现过任何隆鸟的足迹，它的世界第一大鸟的称号也在人类的干涉之下让给了鸵鸟。
译文:
The Biggest Egg In The World
This egg is the largest one in the world, given to birth by extinct Elephant bird of Madagascar in the seventeenth century ,as well as dinosaur egg, which have been found for the present. It will be sold at a market price of ￡50 on the Chelsea Antiques Fair.
About Madagascar’s Elephant bird：
Elephant bird was also called Aepyornis ,and mainly lived in the forest of the world's fourth largest island —the island of Madagascar in Africa. “Aepyornis” means birds with high-up body. Aepyornis is two meters higher than Phororhacos, let alone today’s the biggest bird —ostrich, so it was obvious to be the world’s biggest bird more than 300 years ago. Even its egg is far bigger than Phororhacos and ostrich’s, with an average of about 1.76 kilograms per one, equal to more than 200 Hen eggs.
It goes without saying that Elephant bird were in low numbers. In the 17th century, the population of Madagascar has increased by ten times than before. Meanwhile, they speeded up the exploitation of nature, the plunder of natural resources, leading to large scale damage of forest, which then became farmlands. As a result , a lot of Aepyornis became homeless and died.
The year of 1649 was the last year that the local people gun for Aepyornis. Since then, humans cannot find the track of Aepyornis any more. Therefore, its name for the world’s biggest bird was given to ostrich because of the interference of human beings.