On November 10, 2025, U.S. and Peruvian authorities dismantled a major trafficking operation at Callao port near Lima, seizing approximately 10,000 shark fins weighing 9.3 tons and valued at over ...

Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 US tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk. The ...

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 ...

United States officials said they recently helped Peruvian authorities bust one of the largest wildlife trafficking operations in Latin American history after agents seized nearly 10,000 illegal shark ...

Researchers are protecting a population of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) off Peru's coast by redefining local fisher's relationship with these massive fish. The whale shark, which can reach lengths ...

For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family history. Paleontologists have spent decades arguing over which extinct line ...

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Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 US tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk.