A clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World went viral on TikTok at the beginning of 2026, depicting the doomed fate of a strangely stubborn penguin.

We recently featured imagery involving a prehistoric-looking shoebill bird seemingly dwarfing a small boat in Uganda, a shoebill stalking and slurping a snake, and a shoebill striking a magnificent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last November we featured an extraordinary image showing a dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a bird-watching boat, ...

Last November we featured an extraordinary image showing a dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a bird-watching boat, seemingly dwarfing tourists in the background. “We were all shocked to see ...

Last month we featured footage of an enormous, dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda and was photographed in a way that made the striking bird appear even larger. “We were ...

Earlier this 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 ...

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.