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Maria Vallejo-Pareja

Close up of South American porcupine quills.

Evolution

Florida fossil porcupine solves a prickly dilemma 10-million years in the making

May 28, 2024

There’s a longstanding debate simmering among biologists who study porcupines. There are 16 porcupine species in Central and South America,…
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Maria Vallejo-Pareja holds her certificate and stands with her co-advisors David Blackburn and Jonathan Bloch.

Awards & Honors

Maria Vallejo receives Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Academic Women 

April 5, 2024

María Vallejo-Pareja, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, has won an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for…
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Parts of a frog skeleton are photographed from above against a white background.

Evolution

Frogs were Florida’s first-known vertebrates from the Caribbean

November 6, 2023

Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years…
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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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