Turkeys

Sure, the food at Thanksgiving is great. But in our opinion, the real star of this holiday is the terrifying artwork brought home from elementary school art class.

After a neck and neck online competition, President Obama today granted pardon to two turkeys, Cobbler and Gobbler. Cobbler, who likes eating cranberries and listening to Carly Simon, narrowly beat out Gobbler, the corn-eating turkey who loves bluegrass...

One of the many things the internet has taught us is that animals of different species will become close friends when given the chance. The latest inter-species love story comes from Tinsel the turkey and Bramble the deer. Tinsel was taken to Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary in England after he was thrown off a truck and found on the side of the highway. It was there that he met Brambl

As holidays go, Thanksgiving sure has its share of odd traditions. Live parades with lip-synched musical numbers! Mincemeat pies and Jell-O molds! Grandma Ruthie removing her dentures at the dinner table! Not even the President of the United States is spared his share of the inanity...

This time of year it's only fair that we highlight as many videos of turkeys on the attack as possible. In this entertaining video, a little girl learns a valuable lesson about not teasing the proud bird.

Let's face it: turkeys have it pretty rough. They let us feed and breed them, blissfully unaware of the inevitable culmination of our kindness: DELICIOUS MURDER. (Even worse? They can't fly away.) So is it any wonder that they occasionally turn on us? Maybe th ...

Turkey hunting has been a part of American culture from the very beginning. Once a major source of food and goods for trade, the popular bird was THIS close to being our national symbol. (Nice try, Ben Franklin.) Veteran turkey hunters of yesterday and today know that the best way to attract a hen or gobbler is to … wait for it… CALL it. (Insert ob ...

This Thanksgiving PSA from William Shatner rests somewhere between his musical stylings and that time he threw a chair on '$20,000 Pyramid' on the weirdness scale. In the video below that Shatner made for State Farm Insurance, the onetime Capt. Kirk talks about the dangers of deep-frying a turkey.

Turkey fryers can be dangerous, and if you're not careful with them your Thanksgiving could end in disaster. If you don't believe us just listen to your friend William Shatner, who shot this cautionary tale of a turkey fryer gone awry for State Farm Insurance.  Watch what happens when Capt. Kirk meets Thanksgiving below.

White meat, dark meat... or Spam meat? Even the most devout Thanksgiving eaters might have a hard time swallowing these 10 turkey-flavored, truly unique and totally bizarre edibles below. Somebody please pass the (regular-flavored) Alka-Seltzer...

Thanks to approximately 100 wild turkeys who live in the area, "Turkey Day" is year-round in the Staten Island neighborhood of Ocean Breeze. So...many...gobbles...

Most of us will likely celebrate Thanksgiving this year with fare served in the traditional way. But one innovative chef has updated the classic holiday dinner by combining its elements to create something called a "Thanksgiving Plate Cakelette." Yum!