OCUCAJE, Peru — Nestled between the Andes and the Pacific, the sparse desert surrounding this outpost in southern Peru looks like one of the world’s most desolate areas. Barren mountains rise from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient whale that inhabited the seas 36 million years ago, ...

OCUCAJE, Peru – Millions of years ago, this desert in Peru was a gathering place for fantastical sea creatures: whales that walked, dolphins with walrus faces, sharks with teeth as large as a human ...

LIMA, Peru — Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now ...

The discovery of ancient whale remains in the Ocucaje Desert in southern Peru makes this area the richest in South America for primitive sea mammal fossils. Euronews Paleontologists in Peru have ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Paleontologists in Peru unveiled on Wednesday the fossilized skeleton of an ancient, dolphin-like creature estimated to be between 8 and 12 million years old. The remains were ...