Paleontologists discovered the fossilized bones of a four-legged prehistoric whale with webbed feet, off Peru's western coast in 2011. Even stranger, its fingers and toes had little hooves on them. It possessed razor-sharp teeth that it used to catch fish.
The creature is believed to be a type of pliosaur — fearsome predators that had huge skulls, giant teeth and a bite force more powerful than that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
At 4,000 km upriver you reach the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and there lived the people of the Chachapoya, also called “The Warriors of the Clouds.” There is…
Fossil from fourth-ever discovered specimen of a titanosaur may reinforce theory that dinosaurs traveled between South America and Australia.
The discovery of a set of 9.7 million-year-old teeth is leading some experts to posit that Europe may have been the true birthplace of humankind, and not Africa as previously thought.
In a groundbreaking experiment, scientists successfully revived Yuka's ancient cells that were frozen for 28,000 years.
The skull belongs an extinct hominin that lived 1.85 million years ago!
