The group of thieves had intended to steal and sell the oil by digging directly to the pipeline using primitive tools.
A set of cutting and skinning tools is being hailed as evidence that our ancestors shared knowledge.
Baboons at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside have reportedly taken to wielding knives and sharp tools.
The Hubble Space Telescope is often regarded to be one of the most important scientific tools ever built.
The discovery of stone tools in Algeria has cast doubt on the notion that east Africa was the 'cradle of humankind'.
Prehistoric stone tools predating the human genus have been unearthed in a dried-up riverbed in Kenya.
The desert's Messak Settafet escarpment contains up to 75 prehistoric tools per square meter.
Crocodiles and alligators have been observed using a special technique to lure and catch birds.
New evidence suggests that Neanderthals may have taught our ancestors how to make some types of tools.
Researchers were stunned to discover that a captive cockatoo was able to build its own tools.
Archaeologists have found the tools and remains of a prehistoric workshop in a cave near Cape Town.
The first ever pictures of a fish using a tool have been taken at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Ancient seafaring and maritime tools have been discovered on California's Channel Islands.
A cache of stone tools is calling in to question the timeline during which early humans left Africa.
In a demonstration of human-like behaviour monkeys are very selective about the tools they use.
Scientists have found evidence that stone tools were used to cut meat almost 1 million years earlier than thought.
A must for every Elvis fan, the tools used during the autopsy conducted on the star in 1977 are going up for auction.
The new discovery of stone tools on the island of Flores suggests an evolutionary history of over 1 million years.
It has long been thought that God, if he exists, cannot be detected or measured through the tools of science, but now sc...
A controversial new theory has suggested that the Neanderthals may have died out 30,000 years ago because modern humans ...