Jorge Velez-Juarbe
@VelezJuarbeJ
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Associate Curator of Marine Mammals (living & extinct) @NHMLA. Paleobiologist. Boricua🇵🇷 The Caribbean & Eastern Pacific are my playground! Views are my own.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2014
2nd new paper of the week! Meet #Olympicetus thalassodon! A new early odontocete from the #Oligocene of #Washington state! The paper is #OpenAccess published at @thePeerJ!! Check out the amazing artwork by @cullen_townsend
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RT @Paleo_Fiorillo: #FossilFriday on Tuesday. Installation of homage to the Permian Basin sponge reef complex in southeast New Mexico. Inst…
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RT @paleoAldo: I am Dr. Benites-Palomino! Today I defended my doctoral research, of course being deconial and wearing a traditional “faja”…
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RT @GuarioCandanga: Soy maestro de Historia hace ya una década. Todos los días recibo en mi correo electrónico convotarias de plazas para m…
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RT @portna: No sólo no se deben cerrar programas en la UPR, mucho menos áreas de estudio medulares, clásicas y fundamentales para una UNIVE…
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RT @curiosidadcitfk: Nerdiando con el gran @lherrero en navidad. 🎄 Gracias nuevamente por decir que si.
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RT @N_CastelblancoM: Algo de lo que no se habla mucho: hacer un posgrado es también una forma de crear redes de colaboración, y de cultivar…
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RT @paleoAldo: In honour of finishing the 6th and final chapter of my #PhD here is the #periotic bone of the raptorial physeteroid Acrophys…
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RT @diapophysis: I'm very happy to be part of the team introducing the new pterosaur species Inabtanin alarabia (along with a new specimen…
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RT @tandfnewsroom: Ancient sea cow attacked by crocodile and sharks sheds light on prehistoric food chains 🐊🦈 The finding is one of the fe…
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RT @SmithsonianMag: New research suggests the dugong-like sea creature was attacked by a crocodile, then its remains were scavenged by a ti…
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#Seacow vs #croc vs #shark?! Check out our most recent paper where we discuss what may have happened!! It's #OpenAccess!! 👇
4th PhD chapter is out now! (a short-ish paper at JVP) We report a poor dugong with predation evidence from a crocodilian and possible subsequent scavenging by sharks from the Miocene of Venezuela :D Of course the artwork by @BranArtworks
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RT @KsepkaLab: Amy Balanoff & I have a piece out on what it was like to be a dinosaur - how did they perceive the world in terms of smell,…
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RT @Blogozoic: Really cool PhD project being advertised by @Te_Papa and Victoria University of Wellington on deep time evolution of marine…
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RT @ThePalAss: Postcranial anatomy & osteohistology of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Crocodylomorpha) from Late Triassic of Wales https://t.co/…
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RT @curiosidadcitfk: Viene mi gente. El primer museo de historia natural de Puerto Rico estará abriendo sus puertas el próximo año. Aquí le…
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Today I'm revisiting the locality where I found the oldest #Caribbean frog, a #coqui from the early #Oligocene #PuertoRico!! Beautiful day for #fieldwork!! You can read more about the discovery in the thread from a few years ago! ##CaribbeanPaleobiology #NHMLAC
Here it is, the oldest Caribbean frog! In this paper with coauthors @davidcblackburn @rmkeeffe & M.C. Vallejo-Pareja we describe a humerus of a #coquí frog (Eleutherodactylus) from the early #Oligocene of #PuertoRico! 1/6 #OpenAccess #CaribbeanPaleobiology
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RT @ElUrbanistaPR: Te convoco a que en este Día Mundial de los Océanos reflexionemos sobre nuestras acciones y cómo podemos contribuir a la…
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RT @sofiabiologista: Marvel: "Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history" Me:
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RT @WitmerLab: There are few things as exciting in our little corner of science as a new specimen of Archaeopteryx...with a skull...in a ma…
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