A Courtice resident is calling for caution after spotting pileated woodpeckers near a proposed development site. While the ...

We leave you this Sunday morning with red-bellied woodpeckers at Canaveral Marshes near Orlando, Florida. Videographer: Doug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tapping woodpeckers harness their muscles more like tennis players than like weight lifters. (Diana Robinson Photography/Getty ...

“And you tell him if he don’t show up himself, he ain’t nothing but a yellow-bellied sapsucking coward.”–Denzel Washington as Sam Chisolm in the 2016 remake of "The Magnificent Seven" Arguably our ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to add new information. Fayetteville's minor league baseball team has been sold to an organization that has ties to multiple minor league franchises across the ...

Fayetteville's minor league baseball team has been sold to an organization that has ties to multiple minor league franchises across the country. The city of Fayetteville announced Dec. 9 in a news ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

A close-up look at a woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk, its head lifted as if sensing movement nearby. The soft green background brings full focus to the bird’s feathers and alert posture, creating ...

The last time anyone spotted a red-cockaded woodpecker in Tennessee, Bill Clinton was in his first term in the White House. Tom Hanks was starring as Forrest Gump on the silver screen, and a new ...

If you’ve heard the hammering of a woodpecker in the woods, you might have wondered how the birds can be so forceful. What does it take to whack your head against a tree repeatedly, hard enough to ...

Tiny but mighty: Downy woodpeckers drill into trees with a force 20 to 30 times their body weight. Brown University How do downy woodpeckers—North America’s smallest woodpeckers—manage to drill holes ...

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 ...