The 1941 movie Dumbo might have made it seem as if elephants in captivity were having babies, but the first successful ...

Mike McBey via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 For seven months, Dolly’s birth was kept secret. That’s because unlike most lambs, her life started in a test tube. Her birth announcement on ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s ...