"Nurses kept coming by to see him because usually people don't live through his specific type of break. He had to have a halo for a while (think Regina George after the bus), and recovery was not fun, ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...

A new study is the first to describe tool use in a cow. It could be evidence that livestock has higher cognitive capabilities ...

Trans fats don’t just act like saturated fats in foods. They also act like saturated fats in the body, raising LDL ...

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

A new study has challenged assumptions about livestock intelligence by documenting the first known ...

Researchers in Austria detailed the unusual case of the first cow to be documented using tools -- specifically, a brush she ...

Wildlife officials in Colorado came to the rescue of a bighorn sheep that wandered out onto a frozen river and fell halfway ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of ...

A cow in Austria has made headlines for demonstrating flexible tool use, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence.

A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time? Like many other pets, she likes to ...

Veronika the Austrian cow adapts the placement of a tool depending where on her body she has an itch, and challenges assumptions about cattle smarts in the process.