A stone tool found in the sand has always been considered the handiwork of early humans and their ancestors. But a remarkable discovery in a Brazilian forest suggests that might not be so. Scientists ...

Capuchin using a stick to probe the ground for food. Capuchin Culture Project in Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61243-8 Capuchin monkeys are omnivores whose diet in the wild may ...

The research team, led by Durham University’s Department of Anthropology, studied two groups of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park. The researchers installed a ...

use tools to help them procure food. Researchers writing in the current issue of Science report having spotted capuchins in the Caatinga forests of northeastern Brazil regularly using stones to dig ...

Science just dropped the most unexpected headline of the year: Monkeys in Bali are using stones as DIY sex toys! Okay, so you know how we’re always being told animals are “just animals”? Like, they ...