Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, found across much of the Pacific Ocean
photograph by Kat Paleckova
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Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, found across much of the Pacific Ocean
photograph by Kat Paleckova

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DinApril Day 23: A dinosaur that looks like an animal that is not a dinosaur (that your father saw).
Welcome to DinApril 2026, where instead of recycling my list from last year, I made my father come up with the dinosaurs! Our twenty-third day features a dinosaur that looks like an animal that is not a dinosaur: Phoebastria albatrus! A female short-tailed albatross has caught a Japanese flying squid and is bringing it home to her baby, only to be caught by surprise by the sight of a male Pteranodon longiceps carrying an Enchoteuthis that probably weighs a lot more than he does (and that isn't even the type species). How the pterosaur managed to pick up the stem-octopod, much less fly off with it, will be a riddle for the ages.
My father is one of those people who keeps thinking that Pteranodon is a dinosaur, so comparing it to a bird with a similar ecology made sense for me.
Coloration inspired by the actual animal.
North Pacific albatross (Phoebastria)
Which is the best bird?
Laysan albatross
Black-footed albatross
Waved albatross
Short-tailed albatross
Happy World Seabird Day!!
Kaʻupu / Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
Nesting on Midway Atoll NWR, NW Hawaiian Islands. (©Selena Flores)
Photos really could never do the true, striking beauty of these birds justice!
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A pair of waved albatrosses (Phoebastria irrorata) greet in Ecuador
by Laurence Green
Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata)
Photo by Jon Atkinson
Wisdom, the world’s oldest known breeding bird, sits with her chick in a nest at the Midway Atoll animal refuge centre. The Laysan albatross, who is at least 68 years old and has raised at least 31 chicks, hatched her latest one this month at the remote atoll north-west of Hawaii, US
Photograph: Bob Peyton/AP
(via Week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)