Read more about the article Pygmy Sperm Whale Dies After Eating Plastic Cup Leaving Calf To Die Alongside Her
The dead stranded whale (@cemmacetaceos/Newsflash)
Animals

Pygmy Sperm Whale Dies After Eating Plastic Cup Leaving Calf To Die Alongside Her

This mother pygmy sperm whale that was found stranded on a beach in northwestern Spain with its tiny calf alongside it apparently died after swallowing a plastic cup. The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) was already dead when it was found in the coast of the municipality of Malpica, in…

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December 21, 2020
Read more about the article Girl Stung By Scorpion Inside Handbag From AliExpress
Judith shows the handbag she bought and the scorpion. (Newsflash)
Animals

Girl Stung By Scorpion Inside Handbag From AliExpress

This fashionably young woman has been stung by a scorpion she found inside a handbag she bought from Chinese online giant AliExpress. The incident occurred in the municipality of Algemesi in the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia on Monday, 21st September. The Spanish woman who purchased the bag, identified only…

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October 1, 2020
Read more about the article Crocodile Spotted In German Beer Town Was A Childs Toy
Crocodile spotted in Hookstief in Jever. Crocodile spotted in Hookstief in Jever turned out to be from plastic, after it caused panic. (Police Jever/Newsflash)
Animals

Crocodile Spotted In German Beer Town Was A Childs Toy

Police were called by worried passersby who had spotted a 'crocodile' swimming in a river in Germany but the responding officers discovered it was actually a plastic toy. The incident took place in Jever, the capital of the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony, Germany, when the police officers were…

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July 21, 2020
Read more about the article Ukraine Set To Use Plastic Bags Instead Of Ventilators
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General News / Health / Russia

Ukraine Set To Use Plastic Bags Instead Of Ventilators

This is the makeshift ventilator created out of a plastic bag by Ukrainian docs as a cheap alternative during a shortage amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Doctor Elizaveta Shilova, no age reported, works in a hospital in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine and recently shared a photo on social…

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April 11, 2020