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The Hippo's Missing Link

Posted by michael on from the facts-to-impress-your-children-with dept.

hende_jman writes "Working with French Colleagues, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, a post-doc fellow at UC Berkeley, found fossil and molecular evidence that points to a close relationship between the hippopotamus and aquatic mammals. The hippo's evolution has been a contentious issue in biology and through history it has been associated with many animals such as horses and pigs."

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