The Pisco Basin may seem like a strange place to locate fossils of marine life that lived millions of years ago. But, it ...

Researchers described a new fossil dolphin species from the Miocene -- dating to more than 16 million years ago -- of the Pisco Basin, a desert on the coast of Peru. It belongs to a rare extinct ...

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 ...

The Ocucaje area, located in the Pisco Basin, on the coast of the Ica department, constitutes an area of great scientific interest known around the world since it provides paleontological information ...

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 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.

image: View of the locality Media Luna, where Peregocetus was discovered, in the Pisco Basin, coastal Peru, at the beginning of the excavation, in November 2011. view more Credit: O. Lambert.

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 Pisco Basin, is currently one of the richest areas in the world for the study of the evolution of whales and other marine mammals; whales with fossilized baleen, ...