The Pisco Basin may seem like a strange place to locate fossils of marine life that lived millions of years ago. But, it needs to be remembered that this region was not always a desert.

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km (146 miles) south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species.

A 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark has been unearthed in Peru by paleontologists.Discovered at 235 km south of Lima, in Peru’s Pisco basin, the nearly-complete ...

Found on the southern coast of Peru, this amphibious creature had a tail and hooves and was the oldest preserved fossil of the kind in the region.

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was discovered on Monday, 146 miles south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin. Palaeontologist Mario Urbina said: "There are not many complete shark ...

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km (146 miles) south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species.

The nearly complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found 235km south of Lima in Peru’s Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species.

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km (146 miles) south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species.

The nearly complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km (146 miles) south of Lima in Peru’s Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine specie ...

LIMA, Peru -- Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, ...