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 ...

International Congress of Paleontology of Peru has presented the complete skeleton of a juvenile fossil crocodile for the first time. It is almost 10 million years old and was first discovered at the ...

A few days ago archaeologists in Peru have discovered a giant cat geoglyph on a hillside. The discovery shows, once again, the rich and varied cultural legacy of the site. This is the latest Nazca ...

The Nazca Lines, a group of hundreds of mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru, have mystified scientists for nearly a century. People from ancient civilizations made the drawings over a ...

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 ...

The paramotorist team in the Peruvian desert. Left to Right: Márcio Aita Júnior, Mike Campbell-Jones and Senderson Laurido. Credit: Mike Campbell-Jones The paramotorist team in the Peruvian desert.

Japanese scientists have used artificial intelligence to uncover 303 new etchings in Peru's Nazca desert -- doubling the amount of known geoglyphs made some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization.

Peru's agro-exports hit a 2024 record of $12.784 billion, up 22.1%; fruit rose 17.8%, and blueberries alone reached $2.299 billion. The coast's“natural greenhouse” created jobs and exports, but it ...

Gouged into a barren stretch of pampa in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are one of archaeology’s most perplexing mysteries. On the floor of the coastal desert, the shallow markings look like simple ...