Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologic
Artiodactyla is an order of placental mammals. Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two of their five toes. The other three toes are either present, absent, vestigial, or pointin
Hippopotamidae
…Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically, their closest living…
The Cetartiodactyla
Entelodonts were stocky animals with a large head, and were characterized by bony bumps on the lower jaw.
Sivatherium was a relative of giraffes with deer-like forehead ossicones.
Molecular and morphological studies confirmed that cetaceans are the closest living relatives of hippopotamuses.