The researchers wrote about the first whale which does not look like with today whales, at all, but rather resembles with an animal which could have been a cross between a dog and a pig. Whales lost limbs and by that,the ability to travel on land, about 40 million years ago.
In parts of India and Pakistan have recently discovered a number of fossils of Indohyus, a strange animal that looked like a deer with an unusually long tail and no horns, or as a giant mouse with very long legs.
Studies conducted at the University College of Medicine from Northeastern, Ohio, demonstrates that marine mammals such as whales and dolphins show evolutionary similarities with Indohyus.
Position and shape of certain molars bring Indohyus closer to the first whale, that lived 50 million years ago.
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