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 ...

Animal behavior researchers have released incredible video of pint-sized Capuchin monkeys using stone tools to forage for their food in Brazil's Ubajara National Park. The team recorded 214 cases in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A species of monkey has been developing stone tools, just like humans did during the Stone Age, scientists have discovered. Capuchin monkeys have been changing the way they use instruments to eat food ...

As spa treatments go, crushed rock licked and smeared over your body might not sound particularly appealing. But this technique is used by bearded capuchin monkeys as a health treatment to prevent ...

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 ...

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