In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...

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 ...

SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...

Which cuckoo clocks are best? Cuckoo clocks are some of the most intricate and beautifully designed clocks there are. Built with hours of care and patience, they are typically hand-carved over months ...

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 ...

HOLLAND — If you think there’s something cuckoo in Holland these days, there is. Former electrical engineer Dan Winebrenner is opening Holland Clock Co., a store specializing in new and previously ...

Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...