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 ...

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 ...