If you are eating a factory-bred variety with a breast supersized for your gastronomical pleasure, rest assured that the anatomy of flight is in place ... the chest plate (or sternum) and its keel ...

Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ability to fly ... The powerful flight muscles of the shoulder attach to the keel, a special ridge of bone that runs down the center of the ...

Now, new laser-scanning and an examination of a dodo skeleton collected more than 100 years ago are revealing new anatomy of the bird and secrets ... the dodo didn't have a keel on its breastbone ...