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.

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 ...

Our are filled with digital depictions of mythical, fictional, and imaginary beasts. But every once in a while, we cover a piece of media featuring a real animal that is so strange looking that ...

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 ...