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The animal, from the early Cambrian Period, might have belonged to a now extinct mollusc-like phylum, academics from America and China say. Other researchers have suggested the creature could represent an early annelid or arthropod. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4156544.stmThe December tsunami waves that veered around the southern tip of Sri Lanka into its southwestern coast, stripped of coral reefs by illegal mining, might have been subdued by the natural barriers, according to a study in the Aug. 16 edition of Eos.Eastern Sri Lanka took the brunt of the Dec. 26 tsunami, triggered by the worst earthquake in 40 years. Lead study author Harinda Joseph Fernando traveled to southwestern Sri Lanka to study damage in areas where coral was being mined.http://starbulletin.com/2005/08/17/news/index11.htmlCristina Pomilla and Howard Rosenbaum of the American Museum of Natural History in New York have identified one whale that has contributed to this mixing, by wintering in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar in 2000 and then turning up on the other side of Africa in the Atlantic near Gabon in the winter of 2002.http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050815/full/050815-6.htmlBut it has emerged that another employee, Julie Ferguson, who works at a branch in Paisley, was given a cauliflower for her desk and told that she could only pass it on when she got someone to open an account.http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.colo.ednet.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=8609If a group of US researchers have their way, lions, cheetahs, elephants and camels could soon roam parts of North America, Nature magazine reports. The plan, which is called Pleistocene re-wilding, is intended to be a proactive approach to conservation. The initiative would help endangered African animals while creating jobs, the Cornell University scientists say. http://www.rense.com/general67/roam.htmCanadian municipal officials believe a chicken manure composting facility may be dumping E. coli-laced leachate into the St. John River, the Bangor (Maine) Daily News reported. Officials from St. Hilaire, New Brunswick, charge that leachate from the compost piles of Les Production Agricoles Ouellet is entering the St. John River through a diversion ditch. George Marchand, chairman of the St. Hilare committee investigating environmental concerns with the facility, said test results received last week show that the leachate has 300 parts of E. coli per 100 milliliters of liquid taken from the ditch. http://www.rense.com/general67/poultryproducerscontam.htm