Dr. Torres graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1999. He works in New York, NY and specializes in Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery.
In a study describing the discovery in the journal ZooKeys, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Pablo J. Venegas and Kevin de Queiroz said they collected several species on an expedition in the Andes in remote villages that had been largely untouched by researchers in the past. After comparing them to collections
Date: Apr 08, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Scientist Discover New Lizard Species: Dwarf Dragons
Researchers from Peru (Pablo J. Venegas) and Ecuador (Omar Torres-Carvajal) with the help of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, represented by Kevin de Queiroz, were the ones who discovered the new species in the Tropical Andes. The new species are different from their relatives re
Date: Apr 07, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Three new species of 'dragon-esque' woodlizards discovered
hat more than half of the diversity of a group of large, dragon-looking reptiles from South America has been discovered in recent years should be heard by people in charge of conservation and funding agencies, said Omar Torres-Carvajal of the Museo de Zoologa QCAZ in Ecuador in a statement.
"During the last few years we doubled the number of known species of woodlizards, showing that the diversity of these conspicuous reptiles had been underestimated," Omar Torres-Carvajal of Museo de Zoologa QCAZ, Ecuador, one of the researchers, said in a press release. "That more than half of the d
Date: Apr 06, 2015
Source: Google
3 New Spiky, Colorful 'Dwarf Dragon' Lizard Species Discovered in South ...
Omar Torres-Carvajal of Museo de Zoologa explained in a press release that the number of known woodlizard species during the past couple of years had doubled. This showed that the diversity of the reptiles had been "underestimated."
Date: Apr 06, 2015
Source: Google
15 CA community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees
"This way we can provide a bridge for those students to get a baccalaureate degree and prepare them that much more for future studies, graduate level studies," said Omar Torres, Santa Ana College's vice president of academic affairs.
Mojena said the dust arriving in Cuba has risen 10-fold in the last 30 years after severe droughts in northern Africa, though Omar Torres, a specialist in atmospheric physics at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said satellite studies since 1980 do not show increased Sahara dust emis
"I'm not going to lie there are a lot of people I know who do complain to me that he hasn't done enough in two years, that he promised lots of stuff he hasn't delivered," said Omar Torres, 29, a San Jose State student who volunteered for Obama in
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