Ian Brantley cannot put a specific number on his age when he first began playing sports. He does know he was just a little tyke, with many inches still to be grown to hit the 6-foot-8 he would reach ...

This is a monumental victory for fiscal sanity and moral clarity, freeing American taxpayers from bankrolling a propaganda ...

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

There might be no political position for which there can be so little reasonable disagreement than that federal funding for ...

The suit may be the first time the Supreme Court’s ruling is tested. For now, Big Bird’s bosses remain in place—though if ...

Males slightly outweighed females, but both sexes stood nearly 10 feet tall, Handley says. Big Bird’s rival for bulk is the extinct elephant bird, long billed as the largest fowl on the planet.

Big Bird looks at him — he was known for his swoopy nose — and says, [Big Bird voice] “Boy, I thought I had a funny-looking beak.” Here he is, one of the greatest comedians in the world ...

Big Bird: I know things are a little different right now, but you could still learn and play together, even on video. My friend, Rosita, has to stay home because her abuelita ("grandma") lives ...

Caroll Spinney, the actor who played Big Bird and Oscar on "Sesame Street," died on Dec. 8 at the age of 85. His cultural impact was enormous, but one phone call he made behind the scenes ...

Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in New York, April 10, 2008. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has played Big Bird on "Sesame Street" is retiring ...

After Big Bird announced he was getting vaccinated, some people, including Republican elected officials, made like the inoculation and got up in arms. “Big Bird is a communist,” Arizona state ...