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Evolution loves a plot twist. Millions of years ago, the ancestors of modern whales looked most like what?

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Evolution loves a plot twist. Millions of years ago, the ancestors of modern whales looked most like what?

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Evolution loves a plot twist. Millions of years ago, the ancestors of modern whales looked most like what?
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