Discover how woodpeckers use their bodies like hammers, combining muscle power and coordination to drill through wood.

Woodpeckers use the same breathing technique used by professional tennis players. Exhaling at the moment of impact helps ...

As November’s chill settles in and the woods grow still, the steady tapping of woodpeckers offers a lively reminder of nature ...

A simple moment in a backyard has captured the hearts of bird enthusiasts online. A recent Reddit post from r/birdwatching shows two woodpeckers on opposite sides of the same tree, pecking away in ...

Feeding the birds is not complicated -- just put any kind of feeder out and fill it with food and the hungry critters will ...

Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers' head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another ...

A downy woodpecker taps away at a crabapple tree in Colorado. Lewis Geyer/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...

Researchers studied the combination of muscles and breaths that the tiny birds use as they strike trees with their beaks ...

A downy woodpecker, the smallest species of woodpeckers in North America, which populate forested areas throughout the United States and Canada. (Adobe Stock) (CN) — Woodpeckers have a reputation for ...

House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election by using the Constitution’s “insurrection clause,” The Post ...