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I meant what I said. http://www.ultimateungulate.com/cetartiodactyla.html http://www.ultimateungulate.com/cetartiodactyla.html
by gaur 11y ago
I meant what I said.
http://www.ultimateungulate.com/cetartiodactyla.html http://www.ultimateungulate.com/cetartiodactyla.html
- Zancarius 11y agoThis is why I enjoy the HN comments. Although, I should probably be upset that you sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole (the theory is interesting!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungulate#Cetacean_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungulate#Cetacean_evolution
- DiabloD3 11y agoThis is a real TIL moment right there. Good job, HN. :)
- selfsimilar 11y agoWhat the what?! I stand corrected, though how I'm standing with my mind splattered across the ceiling, I'm not sure...
- knughit 11y agoAre you proposing that this creature might be a hippo, or were you showing off your knowledge of recent re-orderization? Do non-cetacean ungulates call like cetaceans?
- robbrown451 11y agoI don't think whales are considered ungulates, it is just that ungulate is no longer considered a monophyletic category (but cetartiodactyla is).
- baddox 11y agoAlthough, from Wikipedia: > As a descriptive term, "ungulate" normally excludes cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises), as they do not possess most of the typical morphological characteristics of ungulates, but recent discoveries indicate that they are descended from early artiodactyls.