Human beings used to be defined as "the tool-maker" species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s when Dr. Jane Goodall discovered that chimpanzees will pick and modify ...

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Breaking into a cashew nut can be difficult; but not if you're a monkey. Primates in Brazil are well honed in using stones to break into the nuts and new research suggests they have been doing so for ...

Monkeys in southern Thailand use rocks to pound open oil palm nuts, inadvertently shattering stone pieces off their makeshift nutcrackers. These flakes resemble some sharp-edged stone tools presumed ...

Macaques in Thailand produced stone flakes while cracking nuts—a finding that could change what we thought about human history. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers studying macaques in one of ...

In what might seem like a scene from Planet of the Apes, a monkey has been filmed using a sharpened stone to smash through glass at a China zoo, just weeks after scientists in China declared they had ...