Caribbean Paleobiology
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Trip to Chile, pt. 5

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After Caldera we spent some days in Santiago. Among the things we did there, was writing manuscripts and visiting the collections at the Mus...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Trip to Chile, pt. 4

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After some fieldwork (see previous post ) it was time to do some preparation of the material we collected. We did some preliminary prep work...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Trip to Chile, pt. 3

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Like I mentioned in the previous post , we returned to the Cerro Ballena site. There we looked for fossils that might still be exposed in th...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Trip to Chile, pt. 2

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Things have been pretty busy over the past several days. Between work at the museum in Caldera, fielwork and spending time working on manusc...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Trip to Chile, pt. 1

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So a few days ago,  Nick and I arrived to Chile, where we'll be for the next couple of weeks. The purpose of this trip, is to look at co...
Friday, July 13, 2012

A short trip to Panama

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A couple of Friday’s , no, about a year, ago one of my advisors, Nick Pyenson ( NMNH ), and I were on a flight on our way to Panama. The ma...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Marine Mammals in an Old Print

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I acquired this old print a while back (see image below). Not sure which is the source or the date. But based on the illustrations, it seems...
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J. Velez-Juarbe
With a bachelors degree in Geology from University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in Anatomy from Howard U., I am currently Associate Curator of Marine Mammals (living and extinct) at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The main subjects of this blog are Marine Tetrapods of the Neotropics and Eastern Pacific regions and Origins of the Greater Antilles vertebrate fauna. The text in these posts reflect my own opinion and not those of the granting agency or institutions to which I’m affiliated. Follow me on Twitter: @VelezJuarbeJ If you wish to contact me write to: jorgefossilhunter@yahoo.com
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