Before you gobble up your turkey on Thursday, take a moment or two to familiarize yourself with the strange history of the bird that's America's fourth-favorite meat source. The most familiar part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the Hilton Head area, residents encounter turkeys more often than once a year on the Thanksgiving table. Most South Carolinians ...

On every turkey, there is a fleshy projection on top of the "nose" called the snood. There has been a lot of pondering about the function of the snood over the years by turkey hunters. On gobblers, ...

Parts of wild turkey tom Learn some of the unique parts of a wild turkey tom Beyond the sheer size of the wild turkey, the male, or tom, of the species has a unique appearance based on an array of ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING -- The wild turkey is nothing like the fat, flightless Butterball you might be roasting today for Thanksgiving dinner. Thank God. The wild turkey is a fascinating survivor and a ...

Wild turkeys were an endangered species by the 1930s. Today, more than 7 million roam across North America. ((iStock photo)) Millions of wild turkeys used to roam freely across much of North and South ...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Improbable Research asks the very question you all were wondering. The snood – the long fleshy appendage above the beak, is what erects, becoming red as it engorges with ...

In the Hilton Head area, residents encounter turkeys more often than once a year on the Thanksgiving table. Most South Carolinians do. Turkeys have been here for hundreds of years, although islanders ...