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Giant Egg is up for auction. Let's buy it.

In egg news, a giant bird egg was auctioned off at Christie's today. No price, but it's a huge ass egg. 

As the BBC article below tells us, it's the largest egg ever laid. 

A rare giant bird egg is being auctioned at Christie's auction house in London. It was laid by an Elephant Bird in Madagascar and is thought to have been discovered by archaeologists in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The species became extinct sometime between the 13th and 17th centuries. James Hyslop, scientific specialist at Christie's said, "the egg is the largest egg ever laid by any animal, they are bigger than dinosaur eggs."

This is the freaky animal that gave birth to this giant egg:

It's an elephant bird, from Madagascar. 

David Attenborough owns an almost complete eggshell, dating from 6-700 CE, which he pieced together from fragments that were given to him while making his 1961 BBC series Zoo Quest to Madagascar. In March 2011, the BBC aired the 60-minute documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg, presented by Attenborough, about his personal scientific quest to discover the secrets of the elephant bird and its egg.

Here's Attenborough and his quest to find more out about his egg.