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And am I missing something, or does the second paragraph of this not really follow from the first?:
In fact, the creature is more closely related to a group of African mammals, which includes elephants, sea cows, aardvarks and hyraxes, having shared a common ancestor with them about 100 million years ago.
"This is why they are also known as sengis," explained Dr Rathbun.
I'm guessing an editor cut a Latin name from the first paragraph?
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