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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. animal prosthetics by Guano_Jim · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was recently asked by a client to 3D print some replacement parts for his pet duck.

    But he balked when I gave him the bill.

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  2. Re:Will it survive UV breakdown? by Megane · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think not being able to eat is a bigger health problem than some hypothetical chemicals. In any case, fish will probably taste better than hand-feeding it with the flesh of Anonymous Cowards.

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