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.

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

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

Nevada's only designated National Park lies in the rugged and remote Great Basin of Northern Nevada. Its remoteness grea ...

A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just ... and cold deserts (like the Great Basin). Hot deserts experience high temperatures, often exceeding 40∘C (104°F), while cold deserts have ...

Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow ...

Here's what to know According to Accuweather, Santa Ana winds occur when air from a region of high pressure over the dry Great Basin region of the U.S. flows westward toward lower pressure off the ...

According to Accuweather, Santa Ana winds occur when air from a region of high pressure over the dry Great Basin region of the ... California news at The Desert Sun. Reach her at pbarraza@ ...

The Great Basin can often act as a bowl as high pressure ... the mountains as it warms and becomes more compressed within the desert climates in Southern California. The air continues to warm ...