Eventually, like an experienced safe cracker with a drill, they make their move, pecking into the side of this wooden birdfeeder to liberate the delicious-looking peanuts they so desire. But make no ...

"It's like watching a live dinosaur." Homeowner captures video after spotting unexpected visitor in backyard: 'So cool' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Woodpeckers captivate backyard bird watchers with their drumming, digging and clever habits while shaping the forest and ...

The acorn woodpecker’s social structure, known as clans, consists of a dozen or more birds that will include breeding pairs ...

Woodpeckers peck trees up to 20 times a second. Experts once believed they had built-in shock absorbers. New research reveals their skulls do not absorb shock. Instead, their heads move as a single ...

Superbowl Sunday is expected to draw 110 million viewers tuning in to watch the big game — not including, just off the field, four independent concussion specialists strategically placed on the ...

Martin Le-May captured the photograph in England. — -- A photograph of a weasel riding on the back of a woodpecker that seems almost too incredible to be true, is not photoshopped, according to ...

It’s not from an episode of “Hoarders,” but a shocking discovery inside a California home probably could be if animals were featured on the popular reality TV show. A technician from a pest control ...

Spring is my favorite time of the year. The pleasant weather is a call to open the windows of our homes and be treated to the smells of spring flowers, fresh cut grass and the sounds of birds doing ...

Jumping on the back of a flying woodpecker was a birdbrained thing to do for one wily weasel. In a series of stunning images captured by an amateur British photographer, a weasel held tight to the ...

The bones of an ancient woodpecker have been unearthed in Argentina, shocking scientists around the world and marking the most complete fossil of its kind in South America. The woodpecker fossil, ...