As part of those posts, I listed, as an example, proposed ancestors of whales. Included were ancient artiodactyls and Pakicetus, ambulocetus and Rodhocetus, Basilosaurus and Dorudon (which are already whales) and two suborders of modern whales, mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti( toothed whales. I also mentioned bears (Charles Darwin himself. Proposed them, I mean, not that he was a bear), and hippos. The list of six above were from Miller and Levine’s biology textbook “Biology, pp. 466-467. Also mentioned were two articles discussing hippos being in the evolutionary lineage of whales. One was from the University of Michigan titled ” New Fossil Finds suggest Whales and Hippos are close kin” (Science daily, sept. 20, 2001) and one from the University of California titled “UC Berkely, French Scientists find Missing Link Between the Whale and it’s closest relative, The Hippo”, (Science Daily, Feb. 7, 2005). I could have thrown in an article by Patricia Reaney, “Fossil finds show whales related to early pigs” but chose not to. Greenspun:http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=006Qv1.