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 ...

Shoebill stork is one of the most fascinating and prehistoric-looking birds still alive today, often described as the “Jurassic master hunter” of the wetlands. With its massive, shoe-shaped bill and ...

Shoebills, despite often being called shoebill storks, are not actually storks at all. They are alone in their evolutionary family, with their closest living relatives being the Pelecaniformes ...

You’d probably drop and take cover, only to discover that the source of the sound is actually the one-of-a-kind shoebill stork! Shoebill storks look like something out of a dark fantasy novel.

Gasp and behold the rare Balaeniceps rex. Also known as a whalehead, or the whale-headed stork, the breathtaking, prehistoric-looking shoebill stork has frightened and charmed its human observers in ...

And of course, you can't deny the scales on the birds as well. You look at those long legs of a shoebill stork as they're perusing through that marshland, those wide feet and all those scales ...

A shoebill stork, a rare bird on the brink of extinction, was rescued from poachers by officials of Uganda Safari Guides (USG) on a bird watching expedition in Mabamba landing site, 50km from Kampala.

I’m not a Method actor. It comes naturally. For this movie, I would watch videos of animals, and I was inspired by a bird — the shoebill stork — for the physicality of the character ...