What is the solution to this heavy integral?

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Try to solve this integral:

[tex]I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\sqrt{x^4+1}-x^2}}{x^4+1}\,{\rm dx}[/tex]
 
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Subbing [itex]x^2 =\sinh t[/itex] will give you something like this

[tex]I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\coth t -1}}{\cosh t}{}dt[/tex]

Feed it now to Mathematica. There's about 50% chances it will return a complicated expression in terms of elliptic integrals.
 
Nice substitution, I managed to solve it now.
Thanks