Mystery of the Giant Birds

Bertrand Loyer France 2024 53 min.

Elephant birds of Madagascar and Moas of New Zealand may sound like creatures from a fantasy book, but these giant cousins of ostriches once really existed. Some weighed up to 800 kilos, others were nearly four metres tall. But they all had one thing in common: they could not fly. So how did these super-sized birds get to those remote islands, so far removed from each other?

This film is narrated live in Dutch by actor Koen Monserez. He is our guide in this extraordinary nature documentary about the mysterious giant ratites from the past. Through recent fossil discoveries and new techniques in studying ancient DNA, the mystery of the giant cousins of the ostriches is unraveling bit by bit.

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