That is not photoshopped. It is an actual x-ray image showing an egg roughly one-quarter the mass of the bird carrying it. If humans carried babies that big, we’d give birth to 30-pound infants.

The kiwi, a flightless bird about the size of a hen that is native to New Zealand, has one of the largest egg-to-body ratios of any bird. According to the Audubon Society , a kiwi egg can "can ...

Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution Kieren J. Mitchell et al. Science 344, 898 (2014); DOI: 10.1126/science.1251981 ...

2. Kiwis lay the biggest eggs in relation to body size of any bird—each egg is around 20 percent of the mother’s total body weight. It takes a female kiwi a month to produce a single egg, and ...

The baby kiwi has fittingly been named "Fissure." — -- Wildlife officials in New Zealand recently saved the life of a baby kiwi with the help of masking tape and old egg shell pieces. The ...

A rare, snow-white kiwi bird that inspired a children’s book and was the first of its kind ever hatched in captivity has died in New Zealand after multiple surgeries to remove an unfertilized egg.

The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, thanks to a multiyear conservation effort. Share full article. 41.

The kiwi was originally hatched at Pūkaha in May 2011, with a rare genetic trait that caused her to have white feathers instead of brown. After she emerged from her egg, Manukura was touted as ...