Capuchin monkeys are currently 3.000 years into their own 'Stone Age' as a study reveals 450 generations of the primate have bean using rocks to open cashew nuts. Archaeologists in Brazil found that ...

Some monkeys have learned to use the world around them to their advantage, using stones as tools to break open hard shells, and get to otherwise inaccessible prey. While tool use may open the door to ...

Monkeys in Brazil routinely use stones and twigs to forage for food, providing more evidence to undermine the belief that man is the only species with the intelligence to make tools. Monkeys in Brazil ...

Brazilian monkeys were using stone tools hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, and may have inadvertently introduced humans to cashew nuts, scientists have discovered. Archaeological evidence ...

A 'Brown Capuchin Monkey' (Sapajus libidinosus) collects grains of corn on the banks of the Paraguay river, in Caceres, Brazil, Aug. 28, 2014. Getty Images/AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA Our bigger brains are ...

Brazilian capuchins have been monkeying around with stone tools for hundreds of years, Oxford University scientists have discovered. The primates have been observed using stones as hammers and anvils ...

MAN may have learned to use tools by watching MONKEYS, suggests new research. The study shows that monkeys have been using stone tools to crack open cashew nuts for hundreds of years at least. And ...

UK researchers have collected the first hard evidence of monkeys using tools, Science magazine reports. Cambridge researchers observed wild capuchin monkeys in the Brazilian forest using stones to ...

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The Burmese long-tailed macaque has developed the ability to use stone tools to crack open shellfish Macaque monkeys that have developed the ability to use stone tools to open shellfish are in danger ...

We’re not about to find ourselves plunged into the world of Planet of the Apes – but Brazilian capuchin monkeys have entered the Stone Age. In fact, the Brazilian monkeys have been using stone tools ...

Macaque monkeys that have developed the ability to use stone tools to open shellfish are in danger of losing the skill because of human development. Scientists found that illegal palm oil and rubber ...