Discover how capuchin monkeys in Serra da Capivara National Park are reshaping our understanding of stone tools and hominin evolution. To sum up their paper, published today in Nature, researchers ...

The video opens with a question: “Could this be bio-terrorism?” Talking directly into the camera, the unshaven young man continues in a sarcastic American drawl: “I’m sure that there’s no possible way ...

Humans are not the only species capable of producing sharp-edged tools, scientists have discovered. In Brazil, wild capuchin monkeys appear to deliberately break stones, and this process produces ...

Dr Lydia Luncz from Oxford University explains how non-human archaeology revealed ancient evidence of monkey tool-use. Primate archaeology is a new and unusual-sounding field, but it has revealed ...

Primate archaeology is a new and unusual-sounding field, but it has revealed ancient evidence of some clever and dextrous monkey culture. Researchers from Oxford University, working in Brazil, found ...