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.
AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had ...
The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert ...
The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...
Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...
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 ...
Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark.