Mystery as Newcastle doctor finds live goldfish in his garden

Dr Beska suspected a bird had picked up the fish from a nearby pond and dropped it while carrying it away.

However, he said, there were no ponds close by and he thought it must therefore have travelled a “reasonable distance”.

The mystery of the goldfish has gone viral on X, formerly Twitter, with Dr Beska’s initial post about it gaining more than 16 million views which he said was “bonkers”.

He said: “It’s very odd, I mainly use [X] for medical stuff, so this is very, very different.

“It’s been quite funny, some of the comments are quite funny and about 1,000 people said they thought a bird dropped it.”