When you lay an ostrich egg next to chicken, goose, and duck eggs, it's a bit like looking at a set of Russian matryoshka dolls, those cute little wooden moppets that nest snuggly inside of each ...
Ostrich eggs are the largest laid by any bird. One egg is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs and contains around 2,000 calories. An entire egg also contains around 144g of protein, which is almost ...
Ostrich eggs were not only used as food in prehistoric times, but also as funerary vessels, luxury items and water carriers Eight ostrich eggs believed to more than 4,000 years old have been found ...
The biggest of those eggs on record weighed in at an impressive 2.589 kilograms (5.7 pounds), or about the weight of a small house cat. While you might feel sorry for the ostrich, other birds have ...