The Missing link between the whale and land animal was recently found out. It was nothing but a Raccoon like animal which looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers, or an overgrown long-legged rat.

In Kashmir region fossils recently dug up revealed the fact that the creature that bridges the whale and land animal is called as Indohyus.This creature revealed that there is crucial evolutionary similarities between it and water-dwelling cetaceans, such as porpoises, dolphins and whales.

This Indohyus can be considered as a closest relative of whale as thousands of fossils are recently dug in Kashmir, which is a part of India.Hans Thewissen, Professor of Anatomy at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine confirmed that this animal is a “missing link” to the sister species to ancient whales. He added- Morphologically this raccoon like animal won’t resemble whale at all. But anatomically speaking both of them are having same thickened ear bone.

“The earliest Whales didn’t resemble the current one” Professor Thewissen said. “It looked like a cross between a dog and pig”. The whales lost their legs and walking ability on land about 40 million years age, he said.

Previously most of the scientists believed that the hippopotamus has been the perfect candidate for the closest land relative as it closely resemble the whale not only in its features but also similar DNA.

In the yester years (say, million years ago), whales were natural descends of India and Pakistan. But Hippos are native of Africa. So there is no possibilty of evolution of Hippos from whales.

Below is the image of the suspected Indohyus