Peru’s first Museum of Paleontology to be built in coastal city of Trujillo

Peru’s first Museum of Paleontology – designed to exhibit million-year old dinosaur fossils and skeletons uncovered in Peru’s deserts and highlands – will be built on the outskirts of the northern coastal city of Trujillo, said the project’s promoter, Klaus Hönninger Mitrani. The Meyer-Hönninger Museum’s main attractions will include the fossilized skeleton of a 12 [...]

Prehistoric fossil found on bus during routine police check

Authorities in Peru’s hinterlands are accustomed to seizing all sorts of contraband stowed aboard the never-ending caravan of passenger buses that rumble across the Andes toward the capital, Lima: Pre-Columbian artifacts sacked from ancient ruins. Religious relics and paintings torn from the walls of colonial era churches. Tons of Cocaine. But in Peru’s Arequipa Department [...]