Imagine sprinting full-speed into a solid oak tree at 15 miles per hour — and then doing it again and again, 20 times per second. For almost any vertebrate, this would be fatal — but for a woodpecker, ...

Hawks and owls are powerful symbols in the sky. But what about other birds? Well, add woodpeckers to the list. Across cultures and spiritual traditions, woodpeckers have been celebrated as powerful ...

A hidden wildlife camera captured a touching moment of a great spotted woodpecker feeding its chick inside a tree cavity. The adult bird carefully delivers food while the young eagerly waits at the ...

No story has brought sadness and anger in equal measure quite like the announcement from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that it was declaring more than 20 species, including 11 species of bird, to be ...

A woodpecker pauses at the tree cavity, just before feeding its chick inside. This rare moment captures the precise and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

You've almost certainly seen this crop up in your Twitter feed more than once. It's a picture of a weasel riding a woodpecker. And it's pretty incredible. This is what the amateur photographer who ...