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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...