In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the ...

But they were still affected. Fossil teeth show that the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous killed off many of the largest species of shark. Only the smallest and deep-water species that fed ...

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

"Having documented hundreds of fossil fish species over the last decade, I found it puzzling that these teeth were from a shark that I didn't recognize." The Curator of National History at the ...

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

Remnants of a bizarre “shark-toothed ... Rather than a new species, Sharpe’s team suspects the fossil represents a known, albeit manipulated, mosasaur. Its teeth are similar to those ...

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

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 ...