5 Golden TOOOQUES!

AEPYORNITHIDAE 

(aka the Elephant Birds)

The elephant bird was a humongous bird that went extinct about 400 years ago. They were about 3 meters tall, weighing up to 1,000 pounds. 

The ostrich-like, flightless birds were bigger than some dinosaurs, and definitely would have dwarfed humans. I think I would be pooping my pants if one of these came up to me. MRAAAOOOWWW. 

Here's a normal chicken egg next to a fossilized elephant bird egg:

Cray.

It's believed that humans harvested the eggs and hunted the birds to extinction around the 17th or 18th century.