You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...

As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain trauma from all that drumming? So, I looked it up. Once again, nature has ...

It’s one of those “hang on, how?” moments. Woodpeckers spend most of their day smashing their heads into solid wood at full force. If we tried that, we’d end up concussed in seconds. So how are these ...