Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series of controlled experiments, a Swiss Brown cow (Bos taurus) named Veronika ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...

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 ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — In a paper published this week, researchers shared evidence indicating Southern Resident orca whales may not only use tools, but they are fashioning them to complete a specific ...

An Austrian cow named Veronika can use different parts of a wooden push broom to scratch herself, in the first verified instance of cattle using tools, cognitive biologists reported Monday in the ...

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron ...

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Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named Veronika. Scientists have documented a lot of animals that use tools, like ...