Sherri gets a waterlogged no-prize for bringing us this news of hippo fossils found in the UK:

The bones of seven-tonne hippos half as big again as today's descendants have been found [in East Anglia] alongside those of horses, hyenas, deer, primitive mammoths, rodents and plants giving an unprecedented insight into the distant past.

Crazy to think, but the UK was, 700,000 years ago, more like the African savannah than anything else today, and it had wildlife to match.