In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Intelligence isn’t unique to humans — as the 15 videos of animals solving problems below are about to show you. The animal kingdom is packed with creatures that can solve complex puzzles, use tools, ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I look at what animals can do with symbols, numbers, and sounds, the picture ...

Just as AI and other cutting-edge tools create unprecedented opportunities for understanding and protecting nonhuman animals, they also pose serious risks of further manipulation and exploitation.

This post is in response to Do Cows Use Tools? New Research Says Yes By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Veronika using a brush as a tool to scratch various parts of her body. Source: A. J. Osuna-Mascaró/with ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...