July 9, 2008

News from the animal kingdom


Because it's sometimes easy to lose faith or interest in humans:

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A zookeeper's house cat has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother and is nursing the cub along with her own kittens, the Artis zoo said Wednesday.

A funky fish with one eye atop its head and another on its side lurked in Europe's reef shallows about 50 million years ago, newfound transitional fossils suggest.

BEIJING - A panda who was relocated after China's deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday, a state news agency said.

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