Crows can solve some puzzles just about as well as 5 to 7-year-old children, found a Mar. 26 study in PLOS ONE that tested what researchers call the "Aesop's Fable Paradigm." In the ancient Greek ...

New research has proven that crows are much smarter than we ever thought they were, and that they can even recognize geometry.

We had no idea brains and feathers go hand in hand until now. A few birds out there that can recognize faces, plan ahead, ...

But maybe the birds have gotten a bad rap — maybe their most unsettling quality is really just how smart they are. To get some insight into crows and perhaps set the record straight, Short Wave ...

But maybe the birds have gotten a bad rap — maybe their most unsettling quality is really just how smart they are. To get some insight into crows and perhaps set the record straight, Short Wave ...

They're smart, they're mysterious and apparently, they love a good spa day. Crows are among the smartest birds on earth and ...

Until the 21 st century, birds were largely dismissed as simpletons. How smart can you be with a brain the size of a nut? And yet the more we study bird intelligence, the more those assumptions ...

This excerpt, from the great new book Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans_, by John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell, details an experiment ...

At that point, said Marzluff, we may have “some of those answers” to the question of how smart crows really are.

Years of exploring crow intelligence have revealed that these birds are terrifyingly smart. And now new research confirms that crows understand a concept that most children don’t ...

“No one should be surprised that crows are ‘smart.’” Williams, a professor of biology at Williams College in Massachusetts, was not involved in the study. In the animal kingdom, counting ...