GIBSIDE, UK  - The Brits are breeding Geep!

Half sheep, half goat.  Yup.   That is what farmer Ian Bramley thought when he discovered his ewe had just given birth to a hybrid.

While it sounds bizarre, the genetic fluke is officially known as a “geep”.

“One of the boys told me the lamb had arrived,” Mr. Bramley said.

“It was dark, and I went into the paddock looking for her mother and she had this little black and white bundle.

“We don’t get black and white lambs, and as soon as I felt it I knew it didn’t have wool, it had hair.

“I said its father must be a goat.”

Proving to be more than just the black sheep of the family, the geep, named Oreo, was born to a sheep but is a genetic throwback from its father – a ram with goat genes.

Oreo and her mother, Floss, are among a menagerie of animals on loan to  FallyFarm, a pre-school and long day care centre in Gibside, England, from nearby farms.

The ram’s owner said he had been told it had goat genes “somewhere along its line” – sheep have 54 chromosomes, goats 60 – but in the genetic lottery Oreo came out fairly evenly split.

Oreo runs like a goat and has a goat’s face and feet but a sheep’s build.

What makes Oreo more remarkable is the embryo of a sheep-goat pairing generally dies in utero or is stillborn.

Fallyfoot supervisor Cindy Wilton  said Oreo’s remarkable birth took everyone by surprise.

“We jumped online to research it and discovered, while it is rare it can happen,” she said.

“We had another sheep who had a lamb but Oreo was six weeks later and we learned goats’ gestation is typically about six weeks longer than sheep.”

Since this happened – five months ago – British geneticists have figured out how to breed geep and they are… “furiously breeding as many geep as possible.”

“Brits have always led the way when it comes to goat and sheep and now… we want to rule the world when it comes to geep.”

At least they have something…

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LOS ANGELES, CA — Authorities confirmed UFO sightings over Arizona and Southern  California on Wednesday.

Witnesses described the UFOs as shooting lights with many colors and even a tail.

Authorities and UFO experts from around the country have confirmed that the lights belonged to alien spaceships.  “There are reports circulating that these lights may be from an meteor or a satellite, but we can confirm that they are alien spaceships flying over our Southwestern cities,” said Dr.  Susan Begley of the U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials.

The first reports came from Riverside County, California around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Within a half hour, several Orange County residents also reported seeing the lights. After about an hour, reports were coming from all over the West.

Most said the lights were “blue and green.� A few described the lights as yellow or orange.

CBS2 and KCAL9 received emails and phone calls from Murrieta, Perris, Irvine, Ontario, Riverside, Lake Forest, Corona and San Clemente.

Additionally, police report they received many calls about the lights. Some residents of Arizona have reported seeing the lights as well.Residents of Nevada, many in Las Vegas, are also reporting the green-blue lights in the sky.

Several days ago, NASA announced a dead satellite would fall to Earth by “September’s end� but so far, no official confirmation if the lights and satellite are linked.  Many a the U.N. feel that the United States government is covering up the UFOs.

“They are definitely alien spaceships – most likely from Planet Zeeba or Planet Xixuc,” said UFO expert and former Russian cosmonaut, Boris Lidsky.

Here’s what some witnesses saw:

John Jacobus of Phoenix: “I was on my cell outside, in City of industry when I looked up and saw the green, orange falling object about 7:40 p.m. As I saw it my buddy was on his way home on the 91 and he saw it at the same time. “

Bernadette Cox:  “I live in Quartz Hill. It was green in color and very large.�

Francesai Martinez: “I live in Chino it looked like a falling star at first and continued on forever with a reddish green tail behind it before it was too low to see anymore. “

Chasen H: “I was on the 405 South and saw a bright light in the east. I thought it was a helicopter with its searchlight on but saw it aim downward, turn green and streak towards the ground. I was at the Carson/Harbor Gateway border at the time.�

Dozens of people reported observing a dazzling, bright light, or lights, streaking across the sky Wednesday night over Arizona and Southern California in what authorities said were likely meteor sightings.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office fielded more than a dozen such calls on Wednesday, and sheriff’s deputies at Deer Valley Airport in north Phoenix reported a sighting themselves, an agency spokesman, Lieutenant Justin Griffin, said.

The deputies described it as greenish light moving across the sky from north to south, he told Reuters.

“It took an unusually long time to get across the sky,” Griffin said. “It’s like a meteor. It’s not like we had any flying objects with little green men or anything like that.”

Sergeant Steve Martos of the Phoenix Police Department said in a statement sent to media outlets that his agency received four calls “regarding the light in the sky,” adding that “Our air unit, myself and other officers observed it as well.

The director of the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles said witnesses were probably seeing “a piece of interplanetary debris” that “passed through the Earth’s atmosphere and burned up.”

But that same director have minutes before told the Russian newspaper, Pravda, that he was sure it was an alien spaceship.

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– by Gracie Murano

As close as many sets of twins are, it’s only natural that twins sometimes end up marrying another set of twins. It doesn’t happen too often (we’ve seen one reference to only 250 sets of identical twins married to identical twins in the world) but when it does, it can mean double bliss and a lot of second-glances. The official term for these type of marriages is “quaternary marriages”.

When identical twin sisters Diane and Darlene Nettemeier met identical twin brothers Craig and Mark Sanders a decade ago, they could never have guessed just how much of their lives would be based around perfect sets of two. The sets of twins, from Texas, fell in love, went on a double date to Las Vegas, and won thousands of dollars at poker. Sensing they were on a winning streak, they got engaged on the same day, married at a joint ceremony (officially “quarternary marriages”), and built a pair of homes, side by side.

Soon afterwards, despite a million-to-one odds, Diane and Craig went on to have identical twins of their own – Colby and Brady, now seven.
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Barbi Kantor-Goldenberg of Rye Brook, New York and her twin sister, Cheryl, married twin brothers, Bruce and Barry Goldenberg, respectively, almost 30 years ago in different ceremonies that were a year apart. Today, the two couples remain happily married and have five children between them. The Goldenberg children are actually full genetic siblings, an oddity of genetics that occurs when identical twins marry identical twins (since identical twins share the same DNA).
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Identical twins from Abilene Christian University two-stepped down the aisle in 2008 – with identical twin grooms. Ginna and Gaylen Glasscock, both 22, started dating Erich and Nicholas Schmidt, both 23, during their freshman year at ACU. The sight of two sets of identical twins dating each other caused some giggles from the student body. But she knew he was the one – and Ginna knew Erich was the one – shortly after their first kisses. Both girls felt fireworks. And both knew they were paired with the right twin. Gaylen said she and Nicholas are more goal-oriented and outspoken while Ginna and Erich are laid back. After three years of dating, Nicholas and Erich proposed to their girlfriends on Oct. 27. The proposals were a well-planned surprise.

The Glasscock twins thought they were part of a photo shoot for a new Amarillo restaurant owned by their boyfriends’ mother, Tammy Schmidt, and her business partner. But when desserts arrived with rings attached, the real purpose became clear.

The couples shared wedding attendants, the church and a reception – which saves money. But there was some differences. Gaylen and Nicholas walked down the aisle at 4 p.m. with bridesmaids dressed in yellow. Ginna and Erich walk down the aisle at 5:30 p.m. with bridesmaids wearing pink. The reception was also split – one side was decorated in pink, the other in yellow. Of course, the girls served as each other’s maid of honor, and the boys were each other’s best man.
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Two sets of twins held a joint-wedding ceremony in the Russian city of Pechora, much to the confusion of friends and relatives. Twin brothers Alexei and Dimitry Semyonov married twin sisters Lilia and Liana. The twin grooms’ mother said that while she recognized her own sons she could not identify the difference between the two brides. Even the couples admitted that there are times when it becomes confusing.

The two brothers met Lilia and Liana almost a year prior to the wedding at a dance party at a local club in St Petersburg.
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People were confused how a Chinese couple managed to run a busy restaurant 21 hours a day without getting tired. Turns out the restaurant is run by two couples … both the men and women are identical twins!

Locals had nicknamed the eatery the “robot couple restaurant” as they couldn’t understand how the same couple seemed to be on duty from 6am through to 3am. However, a journalist from Today Morning Post interviewed the restaurant owner and found out the truth. It turned out that the twin brothers, 32, married a set of twin sisters from the same township three years ago and moved to Yiwu to run the restaurant together. “Many diners thought we worked too hard and are like robots, but they don’t know that we are actually four people,” said Mao Zhanghua, 32, the elder brother.
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Identical twins Mandy Westerman and Brandy Laman fit several of the classic twin stereotypes. They were so hard to tell apart as babies that their parents first painted their toenails different colors, then had their ears pierced at 2 months old, putting tiny hearts in one twin’s earlobes and stars in the other’s.

Today, at 27, they still have much more in common than blond hair and similar features. For one thing, they share not only a birthday, but also an anniversary. They got married on a double ceremony in May 2008. The two couples — Mandy and husband Kris Westerman, 26, and Brandy and husband Daniel Laman, 27 — followed up the wedding with a joint honeymoon in Jamaica.
And then a few months ago, the couples bought their first homes, closing, of course, on the same day. The houses, just down the street from one another, share the same floor plan, only in reverse. The vaulted-ceiling living rooms in their new Cordova homes even contain identical beige sectional sofas, side chairs and TV stands. The twins didn’t set out to match, but they’ve found over the years that it’s simply hard not to.
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Couple Donald and Louise Ratsczak next to theirs twins and in-laws Lucile and Arnold Ratsczak, circa 1958.
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A pair of identical twins are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversaries – after proposing on the same day. When Frank Sinton asked Irene Evans to marry him in 1947 he had no idea his identical brother Roy had chosen the same day to propose to Joyce Toft. Now the two 83-year-olds are celebrating after 60 years of happy married life.
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Two identical twin brothers married two identical twin sisters in a joint wedding ceremony in China. The two couples, from Binhai town, look so much alike that members of their own family struggle to tell them apart. One brother, Yang Kang, 23, met and fell in love with one of the sisters, Zhang Lanxiang, at work in Wuxi. The other couple, brother Yang Jian and sister Jiang Juxiang, met at their engagement party and instantly fell for each other.

At their joint wedding, the brothers sported different haircuts while the sisters wore different coloured dresses so people could tell them apart.
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