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A heartbroken family have shared the moment a devoted dog was allowed into hospital to say goodbye to her dying owner. Ryan Jessen, 33, suffered a brain hemorrhage last month after what he thought was a simple migraine. During Jessen’s final moments, his loved ones gathered around his hospital bed to say their goodbyes. The hospital even allowed his four-legged …

The scientists discovered the compound odontoma tumor in the fossilized jaw of a gorgonopsian, a precursor to mammals that lived 255 million years ago. The fossil was unearthed in Tanzania in 2007. Judy Skog, program director at the National Science Foundation’s Division of Earth Sciences, said in a statement that, until now, the earliest known evidence of compound odontoma was …

The Province is opening new overdose “prevention sites” to respond to the opioid crisis.. Health Minister Terry Lake announced this week that two new overdose prevention sites had been set up in Vancouver and were up and running as of Thursday, with another two each in Victoria and Surrey that will follow later this month. Additional sites throughout Vancouver’s Downtown …

At least 45,000 people have been displaced by the powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s Aceh province. Relief efforts are being mobilised across the three districts near the epicenter of Wednesday’s magnitude 6.5 quake. Temporary shelters have been set up as aid agencies and the Indonesian government battle to meet the survival needs of the thousands of displaced people.

The provincial government is warning about an outbreak of mumps that seems to be largely relegated to post-secondary students. Between Sept. 1 and Dec. 8, there were 61 cases of mumps reported in Manitoba, up from the usual four to five cases per year.

Frontier Developments today confirmed that Elite: Dangerous will head to PS4 next year. Elite Dangerous PS4 goes all the way back to 1984 when the first game was released, which was followed by two sequels. While the game will easily look and feel better than the originals, especially if you have already played it on another console, it has the …

Sofia Vergara, your personal goddess is currently being taken to court by… get this; her own embryos. Page Six noted that on Tuesday, Dec. 6, a right-to-live suit was filed in Louisiana against the Modern Family star on behalf of the fertilized eggs. To add to the strangeness these eggs are the plaintiffs and therefore have names “Emma” and “Isabella.”

A massive sinkhole in Texas swallowed two cars on Sunday night, injuring one person and killing a reserve deputy, officials said. The hole, estimated to be at least 20 feet deep, opened Sunday at the scene of a sewer main rupture on the southwest side of the city. In the dark, two vehicles unwittingly drove into the hole; the first …

Zoo keeper in viral video punching kangaroo that attacked his dog. The incident happened on June 15th in the Australian Outback, according to the video notes, but did not go viral until this weekend. According to the description, a group of hunters got together to help a young cancer patient with his last wish of catching a wild boar with …

Ever since Mazda killed the RX-8 in 2012–and thus, the rotary-powered sports car–there’s been a bevy of hopeful rumors that the company will build a successor. Mazda helped intensify those rumors when it showed off the RX-Vision concept car last year, but now, the company’s CEO has killed hope for the RX-9. During an interview with Automotive News, Mazda chief …

Humans are rapidly evolving to have more difficult births because of the growing use of caesarean sections over the past half-century, researchers say. Scientists estimate that between 3% and 6% of births worldwide are obstructed because the mother’s pelvis is too small for the head or shoulders. Although the caesarean section is thought to date from ancient times, it is …