Elephant Bird egg sells for more than $100,000 at auction (VIDEO)
A giant Elephant Bird egg that is partly-fossilized was sold at auction for over $100,000 Friday.
A giant Elephant Bird egg was sold at auction in London Friday getting double than what was expected.
The partly-fossilized egg was sold for $101,813, with earlier estimates expecting just half that amount.
It was sold to an anonymous buyer over the telephone just minutes after going up for auction.
Apparently there were several bidders and competition was stiff.
The Elephant Bird, native to Madagascar, went extinct several hundred years ago and looked like ostriches.
The egg at hand is supposed to have been laid in the 17th century.
It is about 100 times the size of the average chicken egg – the bird itself being the largest ever known.
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