black and white whale tail on blue ocean water. Photo by Rémi Boudousquié, via Unsplash. The jawbone was discovered in 2021 during an expedition in the Pisco Basin of Peru, a region renowned for its ...

The Pisco Basin, known for its rich marine fossil beds, has yielded numerous important cetacean fossils over the years, but nothing of this magnitude. The specimen was first spotted protruding from an ...

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.

A remarkable paleontological discovery in Peru’s Pisco Basin has unveiled a nearly complete fossil of Cosmopolitodus hastalis, an extinct relative of the great white shark that roamed the prehistoric ...

Peru is home to some outstanding food thanks in no small part to the various culinary influences from around the world that have impacted it.

In the Peruvian desert, a 9-million-year-old fossil has been discovered, offering a rare glimpse into one of the largest marine predators of its time. This find sheds light on the evolution of ancient ...

The 23ft, 9-million-year-old shark known as Cosmopolitodus Hastalis was discovered last week 146 miles south of Lima in Peru 's Pisco basin.

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

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 ...