River Outcrop in Puerto Rico Offers Window in Caribbean's Past (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

River Outcrop in Puerto Rico Offers Window in Caribbean's Past

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Jorge Velez-Juarbe discovered a fossil site in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, with fellow undergraduate students in 2006. Excavations have produced fossils from sharks and rays, fish, turtles, a gharial, sea cows and the oldest known frog and rodents in the Caribbean. From top, the paleontologists pictured here are Lazaro Vinola Lopez, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Francois Pujos and Laurent Marivaux.

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Pierre-Olivier Antoine

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