What bird lays the heaviest egg?

@zugedanit (1958)
Philippines
February 11, 2007 11:53am CST
What birds lays the heaviest eggs?
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@fabwisp (1327)
11 Feb 07
The world's largest living bird--the ostrich--lays the heaviest egg and she lays six to eight of them while she's at it. Each is about six inches long and weighs up to 2½ pounds. That's 24 chicken eggs in volume. The shell is 0.06 of an inch thick (the diameter of a pinhead) but can support the weight of an adult human. The largest ostrich egg on record was laid in 1988 on a collective farm in Israel. It weighted 5 lb. 2 oz. The extinct giant Elephant Bird (Aephornis maximus) of Madagascar laid eggs as big in volume as seven ostrich eggs and bigger than any dinosaur egg. They were the largest single-cells that ever existed on Earth. By the way, the half-ton Elephant Bird became extinct fairly recently: about 1700. LOL