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Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak

Posted by Unknown on from the terrorist-your-game-is-through dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A bald eagle that lost its beak to a poacher's gun receives a 3-D printed beak prosthetic like a dental implant." More (with pictures): "Mr Calvin, a founder of the Boise-based Kinetic Engineering Group, made a mold of Beauty's shattered upper mandible, laser-scanned it, fine-tuned it in a 3D modeling program, and created a prosthetic beak from a nylon-based polymer."

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  1. Re:So now our national mascot gets plastic surgery by ZeroSumHappiness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know this is a random AC posting something meant to be humorous but I have to chime in: Plastic surgery was originally developed to repair damage by accident, injury or disease. Fixing an eagle's beak would actually be the exact purpose of plastic surgery as originally developed.

  2. Re:Will it survive UV breakdown? by GrumpySteen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Inquisitive means "inclined to ask questions", not "inclined to ask intelligent questions."