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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team led by Professor WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...