Scientists find missing link between whale and its closest relative, the hippo

UC Berkeley News ^ | 24 January 2005 | Robert Sanders, Media Relations

[PatrickHenry]

If you feel that you must post Hillary jokes and pics, please address them to someone other than me.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Route101]

O.K....does this finally explain Oprah Winfrey?....

[sure_fine]

is this the missing link?

[HankReardon]

Amazing! Whales were always whales and hippos were always hippos. Are there any other theories that has promoted as much searching for evidence to support it than evolution? They're really stretching here.

When a species had to develop a defense measure to keep from being wiped out by predators this susposedly took millions of years, they must have been in hiding wating for armor, wings, poison glands or whatever to develop.

I assure you, all of our ancestors were fully human.

[Time is now]

Jesus man, have you no shame!!! Barf Alert REQUIRED

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Somehow, a legless man chasing a white hippo just does not sound like a timeless classic to me.
"From Hell's heart I stab at the.....thou dammed hippo!"

[mlc9852]

Agreed!

[bobjam]

hippopotamus=
hippo: Greek for horse
potamo: Greek for river

hence "river horse"

[Physicist]

A major roadblock to linking whales with hippos was the lack of any fossils that appeared intermediate between the two.

But wait...I thought evolution didn't make predictions, and therefore wasn't testable!

[Physicist]

I propose a new classification: the "boombalattotheres".

[neutrality]

Maybe it's because the evidence is so abundant

[DannyTN]

Notice the tree. They don't really have a common ancestor, both animals are shown in the branches.

TrueOrigin Whales

Darwin Refuted

Whale of a tale

[Cowman]

Oh, somebody saw a blubbering hippo and made a connection

[Cronos]

Another fascinating point on this are the peccaries -- they resemble pigs at least that's what the books say (I've never seen one in real life), but what's the differentiating factors?

[Junior]

All these years on the crevo threads and you've learned nothing new. Militant, willful ignorance.

[speedy]

Too slow to be related to the hippo, and too stupid to be related to the whale. I believe it has evolved from the Old Bushmills species.

[crazycat]

And in further research it was found that Michael Moore is related to a pig and moron.

[JusPasenThru]

There's a Helen Thomas joke in here somewhere.

[Tensgrrl]

Thanks, now I have to clean the coffee from between the keys!