The rhythmic drumming echoes through the forest as the great spotted woodpecker makes its presence known. Captured in its ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

The Clip1 beat my favorite open-style wireless earbuds in the sound department and cost less than half the price.

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

A downy woodpecker taps away at a crabapple tree in Colorado. Lewis Geyer/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...

Woodpeckers pack a punch, pounding wood with extreme force and experiencing decelerations of up to 400g. Now, researchers reveal in the Journal of Experimental Biology that drilling woodpeckers turn ...