This story appears in the Spetember 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the ground in front of me there’s a large round pile of what looks like moist purple mud. It’s roughly the ...

Big Bird (L) and other Sesame Street puppet charactors pose next to temporarty street sign November 9, 2009 at West 64th Street and Broadway in New York on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the ...

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 ...

A US Senator came for a beloved children’s television show character on Twitter – and now that icon is coming for his senate seat. Last week, Big Bird – the well-known, much-loved giant bird ...