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Indohyus (a small, deer-like or raccoon-sized mammal from about 48 million years ago) is widely regarded by paleontologists as the closest known relative or earliest known member of the evolutionary lineage leading to modern whales (cetaceans). It belongs to the family Raoellidae, which is considered a sister group to the ancestors of whales — in other words, it represents the closest known branch to the whale family tree before true cetaceans (like Pakicetus) emerged.