Shoebills seriously don’t look real. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sRTtMaKxC00
Example of “living fossil”.
And they sound unreal too https://youtube.com/shorts/2R3cY2-W-PM
The Bird
Every dinosaur bird is like:
Here is a badass apex predator that is perfectly adapted to its environment; it is going extinct because it won’t stop killing its own kind for fun.
Up until the 15th century, we still had birds this big:
That’s around 3.6 meters.
So is this the actor that played Big Bird? I mean I heard rumors he got cranky… but seriously…
You picked the one picture where they don’t look like they were created by Jim Henson.
Oh, there are plenty of these, it’s just this angle in particular that tells the monkey brain something’s about to rip its guts out
Most pictures they look awfully goofy, this one you can tell that they are dinosaurs.
Edit to add:
This was a part of the sequel to Labyrinth that was never made and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Max 1.4m in height for normal units.