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The aquatic mammals include the orders Sirenia and Cetacea. Paleontological information
indicates that whales developed from land-dwelling mammals that lived during the Eocene.
Whales are most closely related to the artiodactyls. The limbs adapted to paddle-like flippers.
Some of these whales developed filter-feeding apparatus called baleen.

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