A Woodland Park Zoo elephant may be the next Paul the oracle octopus — the cephalopod that correctly predicted Spain’s World Cup victory. On Thursday, the zoo presented Chai the Asian elephant with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STARKENBERG, Germany (AP) — Move over, Paul ...

It’s not exactly a flying elephant, but it’s still rare. Scientists searching the deep sea off the coast of Hawaii released video this month of a dumbo octopus, the deepest-living of all known ...

In order to function safely alongside human workers, robotic arms shouldn't be hard and unyielding. An experimental new arm was designed with that fact in mind, as it mimics soft n' squishy elephant ...

Oh, to be an an octopus, to hold and read eight books at once. Or maybe only seven, leaving one tentacle to turn pages? What, you say? You would need eight pairs of eyes and a brain as big as a train ...

WARSAW, Poland – With a pig in Kiev, an elephant in Krakow and now, believe it or not, a ferret in Kharkiv, sports prognosticating has truly gone wild. Two years after Paul the Octopus earned fame by ...

Space robots are about to get a whole lot sleeker and slinkier. Researchers are developing new types of robotic systems inspired by elephant trunks, octopus arms and giraffe tongues. These flexible, ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a novel robotic structure, the "trimmed helicoid," inspired by the movements of elephant trunks and octopus ...

A recent sighting of a Dumbo octopus has gone viral, showcasing the bizarre beauty of the deep sea. Filmed by the Ocean Exploration Trust and NOAA, the video was taken while scientists explored the ...

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