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Discovery Channel A Japanese company is launching fake shark fins in China, hoping to tap a market as prices for real ones rise amid concerns the species is being hunted to extinction. :Nikko Yuba Seizo Co. a Japanese food-processing company, said it had developed artificial shark fins made out of pork gelatin. Its top executives [...]

Discovery Channel A swimming sea cucumber, a Nemo-like orange fish and a worm with tentacles sprouting from its head are among dozens of possible new species found during a survey of the Celebes Sea, researchers said Tuesday. A team of U.S. and Filipino scientists plunged up to three miles underwater in early October in an [...]

ScienceNow : It’s not easy to guess which species are going to be hit hardest by logging, climate change, and other threats to the world’s forests. Ecological data on many animals are scarce, and teasing apart tropical food webs can be next to impossible. Erik Meijaard, an ecologist at the Balikpapan, Indonesia, branch of The [...]

AP Dallas Zoo officials are moving forward with a plan to turn animal droppings, cardboard and tree limbs into power for several buildings and irrigation for the zoo’s landscaping. The waste, including Jenny and Keke’s elephant poop, will go into a biogas generator. The gas that is created will help with heating, water and electric [...]