Q. What is the status of the ivory-billed woodpecker? Some sources say it’s extinct. Others say it is rare but still exists. A. Most, though not all, ornithologists I know believe the ivory-billed ...

Biologists were surprised to hear recently that a once-rare woodpecker had been spotted in a forest west of Columbia for the first time in 50 years. But in checking things out, they verified that a ...

Could woodpecker skulls hold the secret to mitigating brain damage in humans? Since the 1970s, scientists have asked this question, researching the industrious bird's skull and brain in a bid to ...