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

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

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.

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

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert ...

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 ...

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was discovered on Monday, 146 miles south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin. Palaeontologist Mario Urbina said: "There are not many complete shark ...

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.

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.