The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

Typically optimistic, Big Bird is able to appreciate the new perspective that being small gives him—until he wants to reunite with his friends, who can’t hear him now that he’s tiny.

These small birds then independently evolved into the big, flightless birds we see around the Southern Hemisphere today, according to his team's report in the journal Science. "No one would ever ...

The newly discovered species is a "relatively small bird, something the size of between ... with higher level cognition — was fairly big. It was much larger than that of the bird-like dinosaurs ...

It's always a sunny day on Sesame Street, but for much of the week, things were not A-OK in the land of the Muppets. On January 24, Big Bird, the show's eight-foot-tall, anthropomorphic canary ...

A Reddit thread hosted by the man behind “Sesame Street”’s Big Bird took a surprisingly heartbreaking turn when he revealed details of an interaction he once had with a dying boy.

Birds come in all sorts of shapes and sizes: there are small birds and tall birds, short birds and big birds. Some birds can fly far distances across the Earth, and others don’t even have wings.

Millions of people around the globe spent some of their childhood watching Big Bird on Sesame Street. The giant, yellow eight-foot-two bird first debuted in 1969 and for decades, fans assumed they ...

Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the ...