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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A video of a baby dumbo octopus emerges. Scientists say the rare creature provides insight into the early lifecycle of cirrate mollusks. The video showing the hatching of a baby dumbo octopus ...