Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's ...

Researchers have studied rat and mouse whiskers, but these key organs for elephants have been largely overlooked.

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Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks ...

The idea that animals have their own forms of language has been explored, shared, and expounded upon by scientists for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) The earliest hominins in Europe shared ...

An elephant’s trunk looks rugged, but it is also one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this sensitivity is partly powered by whiskers whose material ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. Elephants weighed around ten thousand kilograms ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

An elephant bone discovered in Spain may date to the time of Hannibal's battles against the Romans. A 2,200-year-old bone ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...