The Latest Breaking News from Peru

At the ACTO summit in Belem do Para, Brazil, leaders from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana called for cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. The “Belem declaration” promised concerted efforts to arrest deforestation, protect Indigenous people’s rights and invite development banks to pool funds for conservation…

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His restaurant in Lima, Central, took top spot in this year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – but the Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s outpost in the Andes, Mil, makes for a yet more remarkable “foodie pilgrimage”, said Paul Richardson in the FT.

The heaviest animal that ever lived may be an ancient whale species, now named Perucetus colossus, which swam in the oceans around 39 million years ago

A 39M-yr-old whale, Perucetus colossus, may be the heaviest animal ever, weighing up to 375 tons. Its bones are much denser than a blue whale's, suggesting it lived in shallow, coastal waters. It was likely not the longest animal ever, but its feeding habits remain a mystery.

Paleontologists in Peru have described an ancient species of whale that was way heavier than a blue whale.

A new species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found

Fossils from Peru suggest a giant whale that lived roughly 39 million years ago may have been at least as massive as the blue whale.

Fossils found in Peru from extinct species show it may have had body mass of 85-340 tonnes – heavier than blue whales