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 during the late Miocene period presented a remarkably different environment compared to today’s Peruvian coast. Geological and paleontological evidence suggests the region was ...

The Pisco Basin: A Paleontological Goldmine Peru’s Pisco Basin and Ocucaje Desert have produced some of the most extraordinary fossil finds in recent years, rivaling other world-renowned fossil sites.

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 ...

LIMA, Jan 21 — Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the nine-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it ...

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