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 it ...

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.

Research confirms a great white shark that washed up on a beach in south-west Victoria was the victim of killer whale ...

Paleontologists in Peru have uncovered a remarkable 9-million-year-old fossil, which belonged to an ancestor of the great ...

Two divers have had a terrifyingly close call with a great white shark in the waters off Cape Jaffa – a 3.5 hour drive from ...

For comparison, the great white shark could grow teeth up to 2.9inches ... 146 miles south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin. Palaeontologist Mario Urbina said: "There are not many complete shark ...