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A New Camouflaged Camera Gets Up Close To Nature

The magi-cam is a robotic and mirrored surveillance device that most animals can't even see--taking advantage of many species' lack of sense of self.READ»

Nature's UPC Code: Zebras

Improving research by treating animals like a box of cereal.READ»

Chinese Diplomacy: Can Pandas Mend Rare Earth Relationship With Japan?

China's government gave the Japanese a very cute gift. It worked before, so maybe it will again.READ»

I-Banker Turned Environmental Activist Pumps $25 Million Into Saving South China Tigers

Stuart Bray is transporting South China tigers to South Africa in order to reacquainted then with the wild--and to try to save an endangered species. What does the WWF think of that?READ»

ANIMALS   |  Comment

IBM's Predictive Analytics Gets Stripes

Zebra stripes that is. The software now serves the animal community.READ»

SUDAN   |  Comment

Flush With Oil Cash, Southern Sudan Plans Giraffe-Shaped Capital City and a Rhinopolis

City architects tap their inner animals and go wild on urban planning.READ»

RHINOS   |  Comment

Rhinos Mate, Zoos Innovate

Inside one zoo's quest to make two members of an endangered species fall in love -- by building a "honeymoon suite."READ»

IFIVE   |  Comment

iFive: BP and the Arts, Animals Love Innovation too, Italy Crashes Out, Microsoft Goes Very Mobile, Facebook's New Employee

As Little Italy drowned its sorrows with buckets of grappa and espresso chasers, innovation was poking fun at oil giants, skittering around on its bionic paws and playing Hunt the New Facebook Employee in the corridors of the White ...READ»

ANIMALS   |  Comment

Best Source for Tiger Bone Wine, Biggest Threat to Endangered Animals: The Internet

The blossoming of trade on the internet was bound to reach into the black market, gray market, and the pink and red market--endangered Mediterranean pink and red coral, I mean.READ»

WEB 2.0   |  Comment

The Social Network for Dogs and Cats

Now we've seen it all: Dogster and Catster are social networks for, well, dogs and cats. Oh, and the humans that love them. Think this is a stupid idea? Well, you'd be wrong. Ted Rheingold, founder and "Top Dog" tell us just what's ...READ»

FOOD   |  Comment

Cocoon Cooker Grows Meat and Fish from Heated Animal Cells

Here's a food-related invention that is even weirder than the notorious Beanzawave: The Cocoon, a concept cooker that grows meat and fish from heated animal cells in a process that looks disturbingly similar to magic animal growing capsules.READ»

"DNA Barcode" Could Protect Plants From Illegal Trade

Believe it or not, the illegal trade of endangered plant species is a big business. The illicit trade of animals is more well known than plants in part because the trade is easier to track. That's one reason behind a proposal to track ...READ»

International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution

Let's not beat around the bush. Fifteen thousand of the world's medicinal plants are nearing extinction, thanks to pollution caused by population growth and rapid industrialization. Each die-off also produces a ripple effect; for ...READ»

Unnatural Habitats: Rethinking the Modern Zoo

Should institutions dedicated to natural sciences depict a world untouched by civilization as a matter of history? The Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna has chosen the opposite approach: this spring its animals share their pens with an installation created by artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf that reflects the degradation of animal habitats.READ»