A few of the hundreds of stone tools that researchers found at the Talepu excavation in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Camera lens cap is included for size comparison. (credit: Erick Setiabudi)
Over 118,000 years ago, on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, a group of humans settled down and made a home. The only evidence of their existence is a...
Enlarge / New Caledonian crow uses a tool to grab insects deep inside a piece of wood.
Though we've long known that crows use tools to get food (and occasionally to amuse themselves), scientists have lacked definitive evidence. Which is why two intrepid researchers invented the crow tailcam, to record the inventiveness of these...
