Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would cause headaches, jaw aches and serious neck and brain injuries. Yet woodpeckers can do this 20 times per second and ...

It is almost unbelievable: A bird banging its head against a tree 20 times a second with impacts of more than 1,000 times the force of gravity and taking flight as if nothing happened. No headache. No ...

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 ...

Did you know that a woodpecker’s ‘tongue’ wraps around its brain to act as a shock absorber when it pecks on trees? I found this information on page 16 in the book Woodpeckers of the World by Gerard ...