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• Knock, knock! Who’s bear? California man returns to 525lb tenant in evacuated home

  05-02-2025 23:37
  
  Samy Arbid’s home was spared by the Altadena fire, but he returned to find it was occupied by a black bearFor those lucky enough to have homes to return to in Altadena, going home meant dealing with unfinished chores left behind when the Eaton fire forced them to evacuate. For some, that meant paying overdue bills or cleaning out freezers filled with rotting food, all in the midst of trauma and toxic surroundings.For Samy Arbid, who had moved into a home just a block from the fire line in
  
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• Doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat a Cat scan at Italian hospital

  05-02-2025 17:58
  
  Italian radiologist, who says injured pet was ‘between life and death’, also operated on animal at Aosta facilityAn Italian doctor has been placed under investigation after giving his cat a Cat scan at a hospital in Aosta before performing a life-saving operation on the feline.Gianluca Fanelli took the animal, called Athena, to Umberto Parini hospital in the northern Italian region, where he is a manager of the radiology unit, after she fell from a roof. Continue reading...
  
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• Australian scientists produce kangaroo embryos using IVF for first time

  05-02-2025 15:00
  
  Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScientists have produced kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals.Australian researchers at the University of Queensland made the eastern grey kangaroo embryos using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a technique widely used in
  
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• Spanish police arrest six members of gang for selling nonexistent puppies

  05-02-2025 12:10
  
  Gang swindled victims out of €150,000 by posting fraudulent adverts for pets on secondhand shopping sitesSpanish police investigating an online gang, which swindled prospective puppy-buyers out of more than €150,000 (£125,000) by duping them into paying for nonexistent dogs and fictitious vets’ bills, have arrested six people and frozen 14 bank accounts.Officers from the Policía Nacional began looking into the gang – which was based in the Basque province of Bi
  
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• Country diary: A tiny jumper from the land of kangaroos | Charlie Elder

  05-02-2025 06:30
  
  West Dartmoor, Devon: Landhoppers, originally stowaways from Australia in the soil of exported plants, bring a burst of life to my sluggish winter gardenThe moor is cold and still. From the bleak tors topped with lumps of granite creased like fossilised dough to rocky valleys and bristling slopes of gorse, it waits for spring sunshine to warm its bony back. Save for a few birds animating the frostbitten hedgerows, my garden on the western flank of Dartmoor stares back at me blankly. Yet the
  
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