The 64-year-old artist, who creates detailed, large-scale watercolors of exotic animals, has spent more than a decade building a collection of vintage composite animal figures. (The term ...

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

“Elephants are large animals that live in hot and sometimes humid tropical climates,” Dr. Anuj Jain, ... As the fungi grow, they bind the organic matter into a solid, porous composite.

Prior research has suggested that large animals are more at risk of injury from falls than are smaller animals—and the risk only grows worse the bigger an animal gets. For elephants, a fall ...