Woodpeckers pack a punch, pounding wood with extreme force and experiencing decelerations of up to 400g. Now, researchers ...

A new study reveals how woodpeckers combine breathing and whole-body coordination to drill into trees with extraordinary ...

Don't be fooled by that soft-looking down and pretty faces – woodpeckers are tough, tree-pounding beasts who simultaneous harden their whole bodies like a hammer and grunt as they drill away with ...

Woodpeckers really know how to punch above their weight. The woodland birds can attack a tree at about 15 miles per hour with their powerful beaks. To achieve this, woodpeckers essentially turn ...

(CN) — Woodpeckers have a reputation for making a racket on a quiet morning with their unremitting clobbers, so it may be no ...

The birds grunt like tennis pros when generating their rat-a-tat, a performance strategy that may help stabilize core muscles.