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.
LIMA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - 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 ...
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 ...