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After a heatwave in China, a cat owner from Henan province suddenly noticed that his Siamese cat’s face looked quite different. The dark mask around its blue eyes had almost disappeared. But how is ...

The two animals chosen as the mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats, a weasel-like animal that’s at ...