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 ...

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 ...

“Meleagris Gallopavo Day” is a bit of a mouthful. Which may be why this Thanksgiving, most people will opt for the less ornithologically precise “Turkey Day.” And just as turkey is a ...

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