There are many who think about the crisp, spring air that surrounds the beginning of a good turkey hunting season. But perhaps, for a much larger population of people, when one thinks of a turkey, ...

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a game bird native to North America. It belongs to the order Galliformes, which also includes other ground-feeding birds like chickens, peacocks, pheasants, ...

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 ...

The story of the domesticated turkey is one of strange quirks of language, the spice trade, Portuguese secrecy, and general confusion. Linguist Dan Jurafsky explains it all in one of many stories ...

Nov. 25—As a child growing up in Spokane, Wash., Cyler Conrad followed the usual customs to celebrate Thanksgiving. That included dressing up as a Pilgrim in elementary school, enjoying what he called ...

Turkeys, the only domesticated animals from the New World now used globally, actually were domesticated twice -- once in Mesoamerica as was previously believed, and once in what is now the ...