The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because man usually has to supply his own text to the “Book of Rocks”), that the woodpeckers we know today began appearing on the planet about 25 million years ago. All woodpeckers belong to the family Piccadae , and there are between 235 and 241 woodpecker species today, depending on which source you go with.

As small creatures that could fly around through the ancient forests, at some point woodpeckers began to go their own way so to speak, and adapted very specialized tools that would provide the bird an edge and guarantee its survival.

For example, woodpeckers have extraordinarily long tongues to locat

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