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The national television station  of Turkmenistan had to endure the rage of many viewers last week. A large amount of people who had watched the evening news called the TV the station in anger after they had seen a cockroach,  which was crawling slowly across the desk of the anchorman.

Apparently many viewers has been enjoying their dinners while watching the Turkmenistan evening news. And they were not happy about being treated to a cockroach surprise while they were eating.

In response to the situation, at least thirty employees lost their job at the TV station. Including editors and even directors. Minister of Cultural Affairs Gulmurat Muradov has ordered an internal investigation into the event.

                                              Enjoy your dinner

A 70-year-old Iranian man has been sentenced to four months in jail and thirty whip strikes for walking his dog. The old man was caught in the act by police in a village close to Tehran.

In many Islamic countries dogs are viewed as ‘dirty animals’. For this reason walking your dog is forbidden in Iran. Only having guard dogs to protect private property is allowed.

The court decided the man is guilty of ‘disrupting public order’. Even to Iranian standards the punishment is pretty severe. Usually people who perpetrate the dog walking law are fined and have their dogs put in an animal shelter.

Oddly enough, not long ago President Ahmadinejad publicly bought four guard dogs. Because of this more dog owners risk walking their dogs openly on the streets.

Look at this video about a cool parrot deflating a bicycle tire. I think its hilarious. Especially if you keep in mind how small the animal is.

Apparently researchers found a fossil of a “Frog from Hell’ in Madagascar. The beast must have weighed approximately 4 kilograms.

The BBC brings it like this:

A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.

The creature would have been the size of a “squashed beach ball” and weighed about 4kg (9lb), the researchers said.

They added that the fossil, nicknamed Beelzebufo or “frog from hell”, was “strikingly different” from present-day frogs found on the island nation.

Details of the discovery are reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The team from University College London (UCL) and Stony Brook University, New York, said the frog would have had a body length of about 40cm (16 inches), and was among the largest of its kind to be found.

“This frog, a relative of today’s horned toads, would have been the size of a slightly squashed beach-ball, with short legs and a big mouth,” explained co-author Susan Evans, from UCL’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

read more at BBC

An American woman who cannot cope with the death of her dog is seeking ways for her deceased pitbull to be cloned. The South Korean Biotech Company RNL Bio has sent the woman an offer to clone her dog Booger for 150.000.

The woman, Bernann McKunney from California, was especially fond of the dog, because it had saved her life once when she was attacked by another dog. Though the other dog did manage to bite her arm off.

The poor animal died one and  a half years ago. Mrs. McKunney had tissue from Booger’s ear frozen in by an American biotech firm. Now certain cells will be removed from from that tissue and injected in canine reproductive cells. These will be injected in 8 pitbull bitches.

According to RNL Bio, the success rate for cloning the dog is expected to be around 25 percent. Never before has a dog been cloned for commercial purposes.

If successful the South Korean company expects multiple additional orders for their technique. Demand is supposed to grow in the coming years. When this happens the price for a cloned dog can be lowered to 50.000 dollars.

                                     Dolly, the famous cloned sheep