The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, UIUC school officials said. A cow that was being loaded onto a trailer at the College of Veterinary Medicine's Large Animal Clinic was able to get ...

The U.S. Air Force announced a test of the Family of Affordable Mass Munitions-Lugged, with photos showing the weapon was a Rusty Dagger low-cost cruise missile. The U.S. Air Force announced that it ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Vt. (WCAX) - Barn quilts have a history in Vermont, with the colorful wooden squares dotting rural roads across the state, each one a patchwork of stories to tell. The squares are not ...

A cow named Veronika has stunned scientists by using tools in a flexible and purposeful way. She chooses different ends of a brush depending on the part of her body and adjusts her movements ...

Have you ever wanted to craft your own boat and sail across open seas? Well, Rusty Rafts allows you to collect scraps and weld them together to make a raft. However, you cannot take your sweet time ...

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Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

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A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

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 ...