Somewhere, you’ve got to hope, an ivory-billed woodpecker is laughing (ha-ha-ha-HA-ha) a la his cartoon cousin Woody. The elusive tree-tapping bird, feared extinct for decades, lured two teams of ...

The days are numbered for Woody Woodpecker’s Nuthouse Coaster and a handful of other KidZone attractions at Universal Studios theme park. They will be shut down in January, Universal Orlando announced ...

Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 4, 1969: Walter and Gracie Stafford-Lantz — the creator and the voice respectively of Woody Woodpecker — visited school children at the Seoul American School. Lantz drew his ...

On March 2, All Things Considered aired a story about a California community that was fighting an onslaught of acorn woodpeckers, a protected species that sometimes makes holes — lots of holes — in ...

Unless you’re a member of the Audubon Society, you’re about to learn more about woodpeckers than you ever thought you’d know. Or care to. I hate those detective shows where they say, “I’m sorry for ...

(Los Angeles-AP) -- His name may not be too familiar -- but perhaps you know his laugh. The man who did the Woody Woodpecker laugh on a big-band recording in the 1940s is dead. Harry Babbitt -- who ...

All Things Considered remembers singer Harry Babbitt, who died earlier this month at age 90. He was known for his warm, high-baritone voice, and he performed with the Kay Kyser big band on the World ...