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, ...

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 ...

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 ...