Record Egg Surfaces at British Museum

The world’s largest bird egg--a partly fossilized egg 14 inches long that may be 1 million years old--was found in a British museum’s storeroom, officials said Saturday.

The egg, which has languished for more than 80 years in a storeroom of the Bristol Museum, was spawned by an elephant bird--an extinct species that until the 17th Century inhabited southern Madagascar. The birds were usually about the size of an ostrich, but especially large specimens could grow up to 12 feet.