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The hippo and the dolphin may be related.
Scientists believe that dolphins and hippos evolved from the same four-footed land animal that walked the Earth some 40 million years ago. According to post-doctoral fellow Jean-Renaud Boisserie and other scholars at University of California, Berkeley, the hippopotamus was long believed to be related to the pig, but molecular evidence from fossils show otherwise.
The hippo is most closely related to cetaceans, which includes dolphins, porpoises and whales.
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