Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, drawn to Florida's Gulf of Mexico coastline for the same reasons as snowbirds are today, opened its winter quarters in Sarasota in 1927.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants walk from the trainyard to their winter quarters in Venice in this 1991 photo. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which organized many of ...

Last Saturday, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will fold up its tent after 146 years. The circus had come under fire for its use of animals but Gypsy Snider, who founded a ...

Chris O'Meara/AP After a six-year hiatus, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is set to return soon, but with one significant change: no animals. Showrunners announced on the Today show ...

We’re used to seeing the amazing every day on our screens. But at one of the last-ever shows of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, 150 years of disappearing history still had the ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus began its final show Sunday evening after 146 years of wowing audiences with its "Greatest Show on Earth." ...