A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series ...

Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools, but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might ...

A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...

Most cows don’t get names, but Veronika is one you’ll want to remember. That’s because Veronika, a pet cow (Bos taurus), has ...

New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Getting food is nice. But scoring that food through clever tool use is even ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, ...

A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...

Two whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. CREDIT: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 270. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

High school science teachers can design tasks that not only develop students’ science skills but also change how they see ...