The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

Well, it now appears that the ivory-billed woodpecker does exist. The three skeptics who had questioned the evidence presented in a Science paper that the birds were living in an Arkansas swamp now ...

The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company is ...

Based on the bird’s size and long neck, Michaels first presumed he was looking at a duck. But then he noticed it intermittently tucking its wings during flight, something he says that ducks don’t ...

BILLINGS, Mont.--Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct. It’s a ...

There are only a handful of birds that elicit pure excitement and joy when it shows up at your backyard feeding station. The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is our largest woodpecker ...

dodo and even the likely-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker. But the animal that takes the crown for Colossal today is the thylacine or the Tasmanian tiger, which is virtually whiskers away from de ...

They join the list of 650 U.S. species that have likely been lost to extinction. Species being proposed for delisting include the ivory-billed woodpecker, Bachman’s warbler, Scioto madtom, San Marcos ...