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For example, the hieroglyph 𓅡 was originally an accurate depiction of a saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis). However, the bird went extinct from Egypt during the Old Kingdom, and as a result the glyph gradually changed: its bill and neck grew shorter, the wattle moved down the front of the bird, and its posture became more ...