Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools ...

Chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park demonstrated engineering skills by carefully selecting specific plants to craft flexible tools for termite fishing, according to new research ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical know-how could hold the key to better appreciating the role of children in the ...

In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...