Meet this modern-day dinosaur with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers. There are dinosaurs among us! Meet the modern-day dinosaur: the Balaeniceps Rex Shoebill, or B-Rex. Learn from San Diego Zoo ...

The scientific name of this outlandish bird – Balaeniceps rex – translates as "King whale-head". Easy to spot, then? Hardly. So elusive is the shoebill that Western science didn't lay eyes on one ...

What's five feet tall, grey, feathered, and sounds like an AK-47? It's an avian predator that looks more like a figment of Hollywood's creature features or an AI nightmare. But, it is real. The ...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... B-Rex? This prehistoric-looking grey bird (note: not related to T-Rex) is one of two Shoebills (Balaeniceps rex) – the newest arrivals in Jurong Bird Park's Wetlands ...

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