A new study finds that sea otters off California's coast adapt by using tools to find new food sources and prevent injuries. A team of volunteer "otter spotters" and researchers followed the ...

Always the crown jewel of the traveling mechanic's toolbox, Abbey introduced some tools specifically for the stationary ...

Sea otters take their rocks very seriously ... Otters are extremely intelligent and have learned to work smarter, not harder, using tools to get their food. If a rock doesn’t make a good ...

Off the coast of Brazil, a scuba diver captured something remarkable on video: a wrasse fish gripped a mollusk in its mouth, ...

Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

Every day California sea otters spend 10 to 12 hours hunting and ... What is surprising (to those who think of tool use as a primate skill, or at least a terrestrial one) is that otters use ...

This example of tool use is pretty rare and should bump up their ... and we'll put a little feeder ball in it, and the sea otter will work its way out. Some were very naturally inclined and ...