Central Naples in Collier County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
The Island of Lemurs/Bigger than any Dinosaur Egg
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 28, 2019
1. The Island of Lemurs/Bigger than any Dinosaur Egg Marker
Madagascar is a place like no other, so much so that it is often called the eighth continent. To provide perspective, scientists who study primates divide the world into four regions: the Americas, South Asia, mainland Africa, and the Island of Madagascar. It's the world's only place to find the wild lemur.
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Bigger Than Any Dinosaur Egg
The largest egg ever laid on planet Earth belongs to the largest bird that ever lived: Madagascar's elephant bird. These eggs contained well over two gallons (7.5 liters) of liquid. That's 150 times the volume of a chicken egg.
Towering over ten feet high and weighing 1,000 pounds (450 kg), these extinct flightless birds survived on the island as recently as a few hundred years ago.
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A resident of southern Madagascar holds an elephant bird egg. Amazingly, complete eggs like this are still occasionally found.
An elephant bird skeleton at right dwarfs an ostrich skeleton at a museum display in Antananarivo, the island's capital city.
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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Anthropology & Archaeology • Environment • Science & Medicine.
Location. 26° 10.185′ N, 81° 47.253′ W. Marker is in Naples, Florida, in Collier County. It is in Central Naples. It is on Goodlette-Frank Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1590 Goodletter-Frank Rd, Naples FL 34102-5260, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is on Florida’s Gulf Coast. It is also in the American South and on the Gulf Coast. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Trees like Nowhere Else / Back to the Wild (here,
Photographed by Sandra Hughes Tidwell, March 28, 2019
2. The Island of Lemurs/Bigger than any Dinosaur Egg Marker
Also see . . .
1. Lemurs of Madagascar. "[Ring-tailed lemur] males use their thorny spurs on their forearms to make small scars in tree trunks that they then anoint with secretions from their scent glands. (Submitted on March 9, 2025, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.)
2. Elephant bird. Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. (Submitted on March 9, 2025, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.)
Credits. This page was last revised on July 18, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 9, 2025, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA. This page has been viewed 140 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on March 9, 2025, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.
