There are some weird and wacky creatures out in the animal kingdom, from immortal jellyfish to mites that live on our eyelashes. However, there is no species so stern-looking and intimidating as the ...

This duck got himself all in a flap after inadvertently straying into the path of a giant Shoebill while heading towards water. But it was all water off a duck's back for the imposing 4ft tall bird ...

Meet this modern-day dinosaur with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers. There are dinosaurs among us! Meet the modern-day dinosaur: the Balaeniceps Rex Shoebill, or B-Rex. Learn from San Diego Zoo ...

Earlier this week we shared footage of an enormous, prehistoric-looking bird that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda. The striking shoebill seemed to dwarf the tourists and guide, largely because of ...

Shoebills reach up to 5 feet in height and they are formidable ambush predators, standing still in swamps before lunging forward to swallow their prey whole with their giant bills. When you purchase ...

Last month we featured footage of an enormous, dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda. The ominous-looking bird, with its bulbous, razor-sharp bill, stood perhaps 4 feet tall ...

Few people are familiar with this giant bird from Africa. It owes its name to its particularly striking beak, which is exceptionally large and long, resembling a shoe. PETBOOK introduces the ...

With the 4ft bird towering over it, the duck started quacking and flapping its wings. But the Shoebill simply picked up the duck, moved it out of the way and continued on its way. The pictures were ...

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If you’ve been clinging onto the hope that Harry Potter isn’t entirely fictional, you might want to head down to Uganda. There, a real life Hippogriff is demanding visitors bow down to him.

Earlier this week we shared footage of an enormous, prehistoric-looking bird that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda. The striking shoebill seemed to dwarf the tourists and guide, largely because of ...