Caribbean Paleobiology
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

El San Pedrito de Puerto Rico y el por qué los nombres científicos a veces no tienen sentido, pt. 2

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Aquí en la segunda parte de esta serie, les explicaré los pormenores que llevaron al nombre actual del San Pedrito de Puerto Rico. Para leer...
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Monday, February 4, 2013

El San Pedrito de Puerto Rico y el por qué los nombres científicos a veces no tienen sentido, pt. 1

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Recientemente vino a mi atención un movimiento, donde se argumenta, y pretende, cambiar el nombre científico de una de las especies endémica...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Finally, early sirenians in Africa

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Dear readers, a lot has been going on around here since my last post several months ago. From finishing and successfully defending my disse...
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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...
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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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