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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (8141)	7/7/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) of 12810

TLC, can you shed any light on this? Wednesday July 7 10:06 AM ET Giant Prehistoric 'Eggs' Seized ROUEN, France (Reuters) - Customs officials said Tuesday that dealers had tried to bring in 315 ''fossil eggs'' of the extinct Elephant Bird from Madagascar to France. The eggs -- reconstituted by artisans from various fossil egg fragments -- have been seized and two people were arrested in Paris. Each egg is about a foot long and six inches across. Thierry Vincent, a zoologist at Le Havre's natural history museum, said the egg fragments came from a species called Aepyornis Maximus, a nine-foot ostrich-like creature more commonly known as the Elephant Bird which lived in Madagascar in the Quaternary Age. Madagascar artisans legally make a living from reconstituting the fossil fragments into whole ''eggs,'' but customs ruled that it was illegal to import them into France. The eggs were being shipped to a Paris business which sells shells and objets d'art in France and over the Internet.

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