Pig Olympics in Moscow

From the city that brought us a cat circus, now comes the Pig Olympics. (No, it's not going on tour, sorry.) Here's a photo from the synchronized swimming:


Strangely, the article doesn't say who won! C'mon, BBC News, I had a small wager on Mykola of Ukraine . . . . The piece does make clear, however, that these pigs will not be turned into pelmeni:

"They go on to produce a new generation of sport pigs. They don't get eaten," he [Alexei Sharshkov, vice-president of the Sport-Pig Federation] said. "How could you eat a competitor who is known around the world?"

Baby Albino Wallaby

A three-month-old albino wallaby just made its (his? her?) debut at an Argentine zoo. It's the first albino wallaby born in Latin America! Check out the video.

Missing Link Found!

Yep, it's a fossil of a fish with limbs from 375 million years ago.

Pretty.

Pit Bulls Unfairly Profiled(To be filed under "Interspecies TLC")

Malcolm Gladwell was right! In Stoughton, MA, Ramona the pit bull is a tender foster mother to three orphaned kittens: "She cleans them, watches over them and showers them with affection." Awww! There's even a video. Watch it and weep tears of joy. If a pit bull can love kittens, how can there be war?

Or perhaps, as another video seems to show, she's just tasting them before deciding which one to eat?