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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:Will it survive UV breakdown? by X0563511 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Asking stupid questions != inquisitive.

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