CT scan unscrambles rare, ancient egg
By Sid Perkins
From Bozeman, Mont., at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology
A tangled heap of bones and bone fragments found inside an ancient bird egg may
soon be reassembled thanks to high technology–and scientists won’t even have to
crack open the egg to do it.
Huge flightless birds called elephant birds strolled their Madagascar homeland
until they went extinct about 400 years ago. Believed to be the heaviest birds
that ever lived, they weighed half a ton and were about 3 meters tall. Their eggs