Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Breaking into a cashew nut can be difficult; but not if you're a monkey. Primates in Brazil are well honed in using stones to break into the nuts and new research suggests they have been doing so for ...
Macaques use stones as hammers to smash open food items like shellfish and nuts. (Lydia V. Luncz) When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often ...
Monkeys in southern Thailand use rocks to pound open oil palm nuts, inadvertently shattering stone pieces off their makeshift nutcrackers. These flakes resemble some sharp-edged stone tools presumed ...
Groups of chimpanzees in West Africa use stone tools in distinctly different ways to crack open nuts. Researchers used 3D scans to trace wear patterns on the tools, called “hammerstones” and “anvils.” ...
When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.
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