Many paleontologists hypothesize that present-day whales evolved from ancient ancestors that had four legs and walked on land. Evidence for that hypothesis would be a sequence of whale-like fossils
A. in which the oldest fossils had flipperlike appendages and the most recent fossil had four limbs.
B. in which the oldest fossil had four limbs and the most recent fossil had flipperlike appendages.
C. that indicate that the ancestors of present-day whales were wiped out during a mass extinction.
D. that indicate that whales evolved before animals with four legs.