AUSTRALIA — A green tree frog required surgical assistance after a lawnmower accident earlier this week.

Ark Animal Hospital staff member Stephen Cutter said the frog had its back sliced open by the mower’s blades, removing a layer of skin and inflicting internal injuries.

After emergency anesthetic and a 30-minute surgery, the frog — named Victoria, after the Victa brand of lawnmower that diced it — was fine.

Cutter reported that the organization has operated on several frogs, including ones hit by cars, and that surgery is hard to perform on amphibians due to their sensitivity to chemicals and toxins.

DEVON, England — Details of a 2006 prison escape were released for the first time today.

Kelly Edney, convicted and serving jail time for making hoax bombs, intentionally jammed his own genitalia in his zipper in part of a bid to escape. After he was taken to the hospital, Edney slipped off his handcuffs and fled through a window.

While escaping, he assaulted a woman and stole her car, ending up in a high-speed chase with police.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Firefighters evacuated an AT&T building due to fumes that sent seven office workers to the hospital, with 28 requiring treatment for vomiting and nausea.

The offending fumes came from a refrigerator that had been unplugged for cleaning but was left full of molding food. The combination of advanced decay, mold and cleaning products led to a hazardous materials team being called in, though the woman who instigated the cleaning was left unharmed; she had undergone nasal surgery to treat serious allergies, leaving her immune to the noxious fumes.

SOUTH KOREA — The world’s first transgenic glowing dog has given birth to a puppy that has inherited her ability to glow under UV light.

Ruppy, a beagle cloned from a genetic combination of dog cells and florescent genes, passed the genes onto her puppy, giving researchers hopes for the possibilities of its stand-in potential for the study of human disease.

This team is also responsible for the first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.

CORNWALL, England — A fisherman found a rare fish off the coast of Cornwall that causes days of LSD-like hallucinations after being ingested.

Typically found off the coast of South Africa and in the Mediterranean, the sarpa salpa has only been found in U.K. waters twice before.

Fisherman Andy Giles caught the fish and brought it to researchers when he failed to recognize it.

After learning what the fish was, Giles expressed a wish to have kept the fish in order to sell it to “club kids.”

Reach columnist Matt Jackson at news@dailyuw.com.