From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

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 ...

The research team, led by Durham University’s Department of Anthropology, studied two groups of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park. The researchers installed a ...

use tools to help them procure food. Researchers writing in the current issue of Science report having spotted capuchins in the Caatinga forests of northeastern Brazil regularly using stones to dig ...