Veronika the brown cow's dexterous and graceful tool use upends long-held assumptions about the intelligence of cows, say scientists.

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we<a ...

that were otherwise out of reach. And this is exactly what she did.

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to ...

Scientists say they've observed the first ever verified case of a cow using tools, vindicating a decades-old comic strip.

Researchers report the first documented case of tool use in cattle, based on a Swiss Brown cow named Veronika who doesn’t just grab an object and rub it against herself.

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists ...

For decades, the default assumption has been that cows don’t have the kind of minds that support tool use. A famous Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, made that idea into a joke: a cow stands beside strange ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived ...

Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools, but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might ...

As a cow with 'extraordinary intelligence' is discovered, experts have revealed more animals with unique skills and abilities ...