There is an ongoing national nightmare and not enough people are talking about it. Big Bird is now small. Tiny, even. I repeat: Big Bird is small. The horror. How did this begin? We do not fully know.

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. The day-old bird, smaller ...

“Uh oh! Does anyone know how to make me big Big Bird again?” the official Twitter/X account of Sesame Street’s Big Bird posted on January 24. Thus began Big Bird’s own Metamorphosis, in which the ...