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

Few sights feel as wild and lively as the rapid tap-tap-tap of a woodpecker at work on a tree trunk. For garden lovers who ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker was last spotted in the state in 1994. The Tennessee Wildlife Resrource Agency hopes to reintroduce the birds in 2028. Red-cockaded woodpecker population declined rapidly ...

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

In arid parts of central Australia, temperature plays a big part in determining whether central bearded dragon embryos emerge from their eggs as male or female. While the sex of mammals and birds is ...

Scientists in Thailand have identified a new burrowing spider species, Damarchus inazuma, featuring a rare bilateral gynandromorph. This unique specimen displays distinct male and female ...

This very cute White-Breasted Nuthatch is eating suet from a log-shaped feeder. This feeder holds suet cylinders which last longer than suet cakes, so you don’t have to fill the feeder as often. It is ...

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help. A new study by the Max ...

Elise Huchard receives funding from CNRS and the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR). Nikos Smit does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

How fun is it to watch the White-Breasted Nuthatch as it moves down a tree trunk or, as in this video, clings upside down on a feeder? The nuthatch and a female Downy Woodpecker are pecking loose the ...

PARTNERS. A VOTE TONIGHT ADVANCES A BILL THAT SEEKS TO DEFINE MALE AND FEMALE IN NEBRASKA LAW, AND ALSO LIMIT ACCESS TO BATHROOMS, LOCKER ROOMS AND SPORTS TEAMS. BASED ON THAT CRITERIA. IT’S LEIGH 89, ...

Now to Rockport, Massachusetts, where woodpeckers are wrecking car windows and mirrors. Dealing with the chaos is exhausting residents, and you can just hear it in their voices. DEVIN MOCK: So there’s ...