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Not a Third Suborder After All: Where Seals Actually Sit in Carnivora's Family Tree

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Systematics section, Classification of the extant carnivorans
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Research into Carnivora phylogeny since 1945 has found Fissipedia to be paraphyletic in respect to Pinnipedia, with pinnipeds being either more closely related to bears or to weasels.
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