Unusual bone in the chest links the birds to their dinosaurian ancestors Almost every child who has enjoyed a roast chicken or turkey has at some point been invited to break the wishbone and make a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever broken a furcula on Thanksgiving? We bet you have. Furcula is the anatomical name for a bird's wishbone. On ...

The evolutionary history of birds as dinosaurs is quite apparent, even in a turkey on your dining table The fact that birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs is now and overwhelmingly supported ...

Twelve-year-old Carly Nix of Lakeland says breaking the wishbone from the turkey is a silly tradition, but that won't hold her back from testing her luck this year. "I usually split it with my ...

Robyn Williams: And so to dinosaurs and the intrepid Paul Sereno from Chicago, who has found some extraordinary fossils in Africa, one like a duck, one with a wishbone. And then he's also speculated ...

Although Thanksgiving is a North American holiday and a recent invention in the grand scheme of things, the tradition of breaking the wishbone comes from Europe, and is thousands of years older. A ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings. Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic ...

A wishbone from a theropod and a turkey.This week, many of us celebrated one of the most American of holidays: Thanksgiving. Following tradition, most of us probably had a bite or two of turkey -- if ...

Have you ever broken a furcula on Thanksgiving? We bet you have. Furcula is the anatomical name for a bird's wishbone. On Thanksgiving, the furcula is much sought-after to make a wish. But at ...