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A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...
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Big Bird dies in the end
There might be no political position for which there can be so little reasonable disagreement than that federal funding for PBS/NPR should end; perhaps that it should never have happened in the first ...
Death to Big Bird
This is possibly the only kind of cancellation I can get behind! Early this morning, the Senate voted 51–48 to remove $9 ...
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 reaped a major publicity blitz following the presidential debate on Oct. 3, but a new portrait of the “Sesame Street” icon, concocted solely out of breakfast cereals, definitely marks ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not to dwell on that little bird but it also reminded me of another bird – Sesame Street’s loveable, 8-foot, 2-inch yellow canary named “Big Bird” – that also played a much-remarked upon ...
After 50 years of starring as the iconic and lovable Big Bird, Caroll Spinney is hanging up his yellow suit and retiring from "Sesame Street." Spinney, 84, will finish his work on the show this ...
Big Bird’s rival for bulk is the extinct elephant bird, long billed as the largest fowl on the planet. But the elephant bird, which like Dromornis was flightless, ...
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 ...