While sitting down to enjoy turkey during the Thanksgiving holiday, remember that although wild and domestic turkeys are genetically the same species, that’s about where the similarity ends. The ...

With Thanksgiving here, let's talk turkey. You may be thinking that the most important question of the day is how to cook a turkey for your Thanksgiving meal. Do you roast, deep fry or smoke it? But ...

It’s common for many people to forget about turkeys for most of the year until Thanksgiving comes around, but the fact is that wild and domesticated turkeys are among the most interesting birds on the ...

When you carved that scrumptious turkey at your holiday feast, you were slicing into a bird with an unmatched legacy. Benjamin Franklin called the turkey a "true American native." He was indeed ...

Most of a bird’s power production for flight occurs in the breast muscles. This mass of meat — pectoralis muscle for the powerful downstroke on top of the supracoracoideus muscle for the upstroke — is ...