2 Million Old Extinct Whale Found: Living Pygmy Right Whale A Living Fossil? Scientist Also Discover Remains Off Georgia Coast [PHOTOS]

According to the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the pygmy right whale might be the last survivor in a group of whales that have been extinct for 2 million years.

A paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand, Felix Marx says, "The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil." He added, "It's the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around."

The whales are known to swim in the Southern Hemisphere oceans and are the smallest of  the baleen whales, but other facts of the whale are unknown. Scientist are studying the creatures skull and believe it resembles a group of whales called cetotheres, which appeared 15 million years ago before their extinction 13 million years later.

Another extinct whale have been discovered of the coast of Georgia on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Scott Noakes, a scientist form the University of Georgia told "The Savannah Morning" that while studying a north of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, the enormous whale bone was discovered.

Previously, divers had found wooly mammoth rib bone fragments and bison teeth in the fossil graveyard. After fining the five-foot-long bone of the Atlantic gray whale Scientist didn't hesitate to remove the discovery in sections of 30-minute dives over two years. 

The extinction of the Atlantic gray whale is said to caused by hunters in the 1700s. The gigantic whale is said to be 50 feet long.