I show animals displaying surprising problem-solving skills and even acts of revenge.

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

Using” Wolf Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from a science documentary that forgot its own rules. In a short video from Canada’s Pacific coast, a female coastal ...

The smartest cow ever lives in Austria and uses tools to solve problems, challenging what we know about cattle intelligence.

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new study published in Proceedings of the ...

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on the bathroom floor, the story went viral within minutes. The local animal ...

Nature doesn’t just surprise us; it prototypes ideas we’d swear came from a movie. Some animal skills look like planned gadgets: built-in sonar, living bridges, and even tool belts. Others are old ...