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 ...

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

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 ...

Big Bird is familiar to countless people of multiple generations all around the world who grew up watching “Sesame Street.” But who”s the man behind (or inside, actually) the 8-foot-tall ...

Big Bird from "Sesame Street" with Catherine Rice, 7, of Smithtown, and Matthew Galante, 4, of West Babylon, at the Helen Mills Theater on Oct. 25, 2007. Credit: Getty Images ...

But some did wonder why it took so long for Big Bird — a performer who regularly works alongside cast and crew, in an industry that is by and large requiring vaccinations — to get vaxxed ...