I demand war on the dinosaurs. Today they're making hooked hunting tools, tomorrow they're making WMDs. It's become obvious that it was the crows 65 million years ago. They're like feathery little ...

In 2016, researchers from the University of Oxford published footage of New Caledonian crows in the wild doing something that had never been documented outside a laboratory: combining two separate ...

Scientists have discovered yet another reason to never get on a crow's bad side. According to new research reported by Gizmodo, members of at least one crow species can build tools from memory, rather ...

Many animals, including crows, chimps, orangutans, and octopuses, have mastered what we once thought was a humans-only trick: using tools. A lot of research on the subject has focused on how animals ...

YET another feature of human cognition that supposedly marks us out from the rest of nature has turned up in a wild animal. The New Caledonian crow, famous for its tool-making prowess, can upgrade ...

Like master artisans selecting the finest raw materials for their showpiece designs, New Caledonian crows identify the best plants for fashioning hunting hooks from among myriad shrubs in the forest ...

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also ...