A painting of a North American turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) by Ustad Mansur, commissioned by Mughal Emperor Jehangir. The emperor Jehangir was fascinated by a turkey. In his memoir Tuzk-e ...

The North American turkey – the kind that many families will be carving up this Thanksgiving – was being domesticated in Mexico some 2,000 years ago. Europeans glimpsed their first turkeys ...

Rebels supported by Turkish air power fired on a Kurdish-controlled city in northern Syria, pitting proxies of the U.S. and ...

As a scholar who studies word origins, I love “talking turkey” – not only how the bird came to be named, but also how the word has evolved over time. But let’s start with what has become the ...