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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...