In the the world’s largest cuckoo clock, found in Triberg, Germany, the cuckoo bird alone is 14 feet long and weighs 330 pounds. The whole thing is based on a much smaller cuckoo clock that is about ...

There are plenty of birds that are widely referenced in popular culture today, whether as a sports team name or as the origin for an ubiquitous turn of phrase—looking at you, ugly duckling. But few ...

We're quite fond of bizarre gadgets that hook into Twitter, whether they be tweeting tables, monomes or robot fish, and so we're quite surprised that it's taken someone so long to use the blue Twitter ...

“Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart” continues the recent string of European filmmakers producing small but interesting animated films for a fraction of the cost of a U.S. production. “Cuckoo-Clock” ...

Genius ideas in cuckoo technology: take the bright yellow, beady-eyed cuckoo bird popping his head in and out every hour on the hour. Replace with the blood-smeared visage of a homicidal Jack ...

The country that made the cuckoo bird famous with its clocks is now worried the bird might follow the tragic path of the dodo -- into extinction. Nature and clock preservationists are teaming up and ...

On a night so cold that birds dropped from the sky and teardrops turned into ice pearls, Jack was born with a frozen heart. In order to save him, a cuckoo-clock heart was substituted, complete with a ...