Researchers: Rare woodpecker sighted (AP)

" PENSACOLA, Fla. - After spending months in remote northwest Florida swamps searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker, researchers say they have seen and heard the rare bird once believed to be extinct. But Auburn University ornithologists, who published their findings in...

A primate, mistaken for a rat, that acts like a woodpecker

"They are not the prettiest creature's around. More information and links here. The aye-aye is endangered mainly because Malagasy regard them as unlucky and kill them on sight. [more inside]"