With a little bit of silicon and a 3D printer, Buttercup the duck is now waddling around Feathered Angels Sanctuary. When Buttercup hatched on November 12, 2012 his left foot was turned backwards.

We see a lot of cool things in the 3D printing world, but this is definitely a first. A software engineer 3D-printed a duck foot that allowed one disabled duck to begin walking properly after the ...

So far, from what I’ve seen, the greatest purpose of 3D printing is making spare parts for birds. First there was the injured bald eagle with the 3D-printed beak, and now a duck named Buttercup, born ...

Buttercup the duck was born with his left foot turned backwards, making it nearly impossible and extremely painful to walk. But now he’s waddling again with a 3D-printed foot. Buttercup was born in a ...

“My name is Buttercup and when I hatched my left foot was turned backwards,” Buttercup the duck writes on his Facebook wall. “My new Dad Mike is working with Dr. Shannon McGee to make me a new foot ...

Via WKRN — home of Bob Mueller and also inspiring stories about waterfowl — comes the tale of Belle the duck, a local bird who broke her leg as a duckling (presumably in some kind of duck-related ...

ARMOREL, Ark. (KAIT/NNS) - A duck in Arkansas was lucky to get the foot that fit the bill. Peg the duck is an 8-month-old Indian Runner duck Peg’s foot was bitten off by a turtle and he’s lived with a ...