“Fossils recently unearthed in Pakistan show that whales evolved from land animals related to sheep and pigs, and that hippos could be their closest living kin, scientists said on Wednesday.” (link dead)

How cool is that?

In an almost related note, someone was putting a pig in a car outside my house at 6:30 a.m. today – and it didn’t want to go. It was really funny. At the time. Later when I thought about it, it was just confusing as hell.