From the YBNBY Center for Geological Progress (Italian Division)....

Italian masons made a cool discovery recently while cutting through some massive blocks of Egyptian limestone: A fossilized whale.

Knowing these slabs probably shouldn't be used for the high end kitchen counter tops they were making, the supervisor at F.M.S. Stoncutting in Northern Italy called in the experts.

After running some tests, it was determined that with their precise stone cuts, the masons had created an almost perfect cross sections of a 40 million year old whale.

Excited, the scientists moved to the quarry where the limestone was extracted from. They discovered lots of other mammal bones. A bigger dig is now underway but the jaw and leg bone fragments which were found could reveal that the first mammals to migrate from Asia to Africa.

All this from a stone masons blade. Cool.

National Geographic is of course digging deep to learn more.