As recently as 60 years ago, we humans believed we were the only animals on Earth that could use tools. That impression was proved wrong in 1960 when famed primatologist Jane Goodall observed ...

Scientists have discovered yet another reason to never get on a crow's bad side. According to new research reported by Gizmodo, members of at least one crow species can build tools from memory, rather ...

Researchers trace the areas of the brain that are active when birds are using tools. Crows are the coolest. I live in coastal Washington, and I always enjoy watching the contrast between the crows and ...

A Swedish start-up is training wild crows to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for food, potentially cutting city clean-up ...

A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

When Jane Goodall first encountered chimpanzees using twigs as tools in 1960—something that scientists had assumed only humans could do — she wrote an excited telegram to her colleague Louis Leakey: ...

Big, shiny black and highly intelligent, crows live all over the world. They are known for tight family relationships, crafty behavior, great eyesight, long life, intelligence and use of tools. Oh, ...

The ability to plan for future events is one of the defining features of human intelligence. Whether non-human animals can plan for specific future situations remains contentious: despite a sustained ...