The Pisco Basin may seem like a strange place to locate fossils of marine life that lived millions of years ago. But, it needs to be remembered that this region was not always a desert.

The Ocucaje area, located in the Pisco Basin, on the coast of the Ica department, constitutes an area of great scientific interest known around the world since it provides paleontological information ...

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km (146 miles) south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species.

Researchers described a new fossil dolphin species from the Miocene -- dating to more than 16 million years ago -- of the Pisco Basin, a desert on the coast of Peru. It belongs to a rare extinct ...

The whales we know today look nothing like they did millions of years ago. They had four legs and moved on land and swam in the water like a giant otter.

Researchers have pieced together these snapshots of the distant past from the bones and tombs found scattered in the Pisco Basin, a thick layer of fossil-rich sediment that stretches across 200 ...

image: View of the locality Media Luna, where Peregocetus was discovered, in the Pisco Basin, coastal Peru, at the beginning of the excavation, in November 2011. view more Credit: O. Lambert.

The animal’s fossilized remains were found in Peru’s Pisco Basin, between the towns of Pisco and Nazca. It lived about 39 million years ago, based on biostratigraphy and dating of Argon in the ...

The holotype of Leviathan melvillei was discovered by K.P. during our fieldtrip in the Pisco basin in November 2008. It was mechanically prepared and mounted at the Museo de Historia Natural, ...