Man's best friend, in this case a male poodle, is genetically more similar to humans than is the mouse, a more commonly used laboratory animal, according to researchers who have completed the first rough draft sequence of the genes of a dog. - full article

Sweet. For years we've thought that humans were so similar to mice, it turns out that we're even more similar (genetically, anyway) to a male poodle. Also interesting in that humans and mice are closer together in evoluation than humans and dogs.