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Jorge Velez-Juarbe

Jorge Velez-Juarbe, predoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
(Smithsonian Institution)

Jorge Velez-Juarbe is Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Paleobiology at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.  Jorge is pursuing a PhD in Anatomy, specializing in Vertebrate Paleontology, and has developed expertise in the evolution and diversification of sirenians (otherwise known as the group that includes seacows, manatees and dugongs).

Learn more about some of Jorge's research at the National Museum of Natural History on the Ocean Portal Paleobiology Blog.