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.

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 ...

A Shoebill, a rare and majestic prehistoric-looking bird known for its large shoe-shaped bill and long legs, landed on a boat in Mabamba Bay, Uganda, providing a unique sight for bird-watching ...

Just the name “shoebill” is a clue that this is a strange bird. The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a type of stork so named ...

Excursions to Uganda in search of prehistoric-looking shoebills can involve hours of trudging in swamps in the hope of a once-in-a-lifetime sighting. Goncalo Garcia can attest to this, having recently ...