I love Museums of Natural History and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC is Vancouver is one of my favourites.
Here are two opposites: the world’s biggest egg vs. the world’s smallest.
From the Beaty site describing these eggs:
“The tiny egg is that of a hummingbird…
The biggest egg is that of an elephant bird… Elephant birds no longer exist — they went extinct ~300 years ago through over-hunting.”
- More of the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Opposites
- Boxes of Biodiversity
- The Beaty Biodiversity Museum Site
Wow, now that’s a contrast!
They also have the biggest mammal skeleton (Blue Whale) and the smallest (a creature no more than an inch high). The biggest was too big to get in one photo and the smallest was barely visible in my photo so I opted for the eggs instead…
Absolutely amazing. Loved it. Thanks for elaborating.
Wonderful photo for opposites – and never heard of the elephant bird – but in some classes (when I taught) we used to talk about how the ostrich egg is the largest egg (think that is correct ??) and whole foods sells them sometimes for 20$ – and the students love them!
Anyhow – the cute little holder for the tiny egg is artsy and what contrast!
http://gsas.yale.edu/news/what-killed-giant-elephant-bird-madagascar
This link has a photo of a woman holding both an ostrich egg and an elephant bird egg, saying that there are even larger elephant bird eggs around. Also an image of the bird which is kind of ostrich-like.
oh thanks – and wowwwwww