Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.
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.
It is now extinct, but its teeth once spanned up to 8.9cm in length ... Researchers presented the ancient shark’s remains in several glass urns, including one containing a giant, sharp-toothed jaw.
Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a precursor to the great white shark. Found in Peru's Pisco basin, the exceptional fossil includes a ...