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 fascination with the megalodon—a prehistoric giant shark—continues to capture imaginations around the globe. Although scientists firmly believe this apex predator went extinct millions of years ...

Paleontologists in Peru have uncovered a remarkable 9-million-year-old fossil, which belonged to an ancestor of the great ...

Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017. It was the mouth plate of an ...

Paleontology is the study of fossils in geologic settings that can date back hundreds of millions of years. Archaeology looks ...

A fossil ancestor of the great white shark, which lived nine million years ago, was presented in Lima. The hadal zone, as scientists call it, is located in the ocean trenches, more than 6,000 meters ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

LIMA (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 Ocean, where it ...

Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark.

Scientists used lost fossil photos to identify Tameryraptor markgrafi, a new dinosaur species from Egypt. The fossil was ...

The name Tameryraptor honors the ancient Egyptian name for their land, “Tamery,” meaning “the promised land.” The species ...

World War II brought devastation to Munich in 1944. Allied bombings destroyed the museum, and with it, the irreplaceable dinosaur fossil.