Deep beneath the limestone cliffs of Indonesia, tucked away in shadows that haven’t seen sunlight for millennia, lie images that challenge everything you thought you knew about human intelligence. These aren’t your typical cave paintings featuring simple handprints or basic animal outlines. Instead, they reveal sophisticated storytellers who crafted complex narratives about mythical beings that ...
Picture this: you’re watching a crow bend a piece of wire into a perfect hook, or witnessing an octopus carrying coconut shells across the ocean floor like portable armor. These aren’t scenes from a science fiction movie. They’re real examples of animals demonstrating sophisticated tool use that challenges everything we thought we knew about intelligence ...
For millennia, people have seen intelligence as a singular evolutionary triumph, a pinnacle attained only by mammals, with primates (and finally, humans) at the top. But apparently nature had other ideas. Modern ground-breaking studies show that intelligence developed twice in two quite different spheres of life: mammals and birds, not once. Birds have long surprised ...
