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 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 ...

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

AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday (Jan 20) unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that ...

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.

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 ...