Old Protein in Fossils of Extinct Hippos and Elephants. Over the years, scientists have made incredible progress in extracting ancient DNA from fos ...

Scientists created a soft robot inspired by elephants, named EleBot, using programmable foam that changes stiffness geometrically.

Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.

Researchers have unveiled a miniature robot elephant with special 3D-printed "tissues" that allow for more complex and natural movements. A video shows the elephant grasp a flower with its trunk and ...

Scientists use millions of foam lattice combinations to create a robotic elephant with a twisting trunk and jointed limbs.

A cheetah's powerful sprint, a snake's lithe slither, or a human's deft grasp: Each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to ...