Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shoebill looks on in its enclosure at Pairi Daiza animal park in Brugelette, western Belgium. Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it ...

The shoebill stork has to be one of the craziest-looking birds on planet Earth. The giant avian is native to the swamps of Africa and is best known for its prehistoric features, in particular, its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa's Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking ...

Standing 5 feet tall with a one-foot-long bill, the Shoebill is an incredible ambush predator. Dive into the world of this unique animal, which isn't a stork but is more closely related to pelicans, ...

Silence. A low haze. A paddle. Hands gripping a paddle. Water dripping from the blade. Ripples. A canoe makes way. An engine ...

Few people are familiar with this giant bird from Africa. It owes its name to its particularly striking beak, which is ...

The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), or whale-headed stork, is one of the most impressive birds in Africa. It has the long, thin legs of a stork and a huge beak like a pelican. Though it was once ...

Shoebill storks have been called the world’s most terrifying bird (though the cassowary might disagree). These stately wading birds stalk the marshes of South Sudan, Uganda, and elsewhere in tropical ...

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 ...

If you've seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa's Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.