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Lazaro Viñola Lopez

Illustration of a sebecid standing over its prey, a ground sloth. Snails, turtles, and crocodilians are visible in the surroundings.

Life on Earth

Giant croclike carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean

April 30, 2025

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in…
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Rodent fossils arranged on a white background

Life on Earth

Rodent extinctions in Hispaniola may have been caused by humans

January 10, 2023

The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest rodent diversity in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for…
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Awards & Honors

Maria Vallejo-Pareja receives paleontology society grant in a first for frog researchers

August 17, 2022

Maria Vallejo-Pareja, a graduate student at the University of Florida, recently received the Estes Memorial Grant from the Society of…
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paleontologist on river outcrop

Evolution

Fossil rodent teeth add North American twist to Caribbean mammals’ origin story

July 15, 2021

Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking how some mammals reached the Caribbean…
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