Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

While it's normally chimpanzees that are applauded for it, a team in Austria has just reported the first known case of a cow ...

NÖTSCH IM GAILTAL, Austria (WFLA) — A video of a cow scratching herself with a broom shocked viewers and researchers due to the cow’s clever ability to use tools as an itch-relieving innovation. The ...

Now, in a new study, Veronika has demonstrated even more advanced scratching skills, deploying different ends of a wooden ...

Veronika’s improvised grooming device has caused great surprise – but that tells us more about humans than cows, says science writer Helen Pilcher ...

A cow in Austria has made headlines for demonstrating flexible tool use, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence.

An Austrian cow has shown that some bovines are intelligent enough to employ objects for their own ends. A pet cow named ...

As we move into the new year, we need more ruptures in mainstream thinking. It’s the cracks that let the light in.

A cow named Veronika stunned scientists after being filmed using a tool, forcing researchers to rethink what intelligence ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...