Ticul Alvarez

Born in Mexico City on February 26, 1935, he studied biology at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas of Mexico’s Instituto Politécnico Nacional. He later earned a master’s degree at the University of Kansas, where his research on the mammals of Tamaulipas became a landmark regional study.

Across his career, he was known as a mammalogist, paleozoologist, and professor. He worked at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, where he founded a paleozoology laboratory, and he also served as a senior professor at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and curator of the Mammals Collection at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas.

As an author, he published influential scientific work on Mexican mammals and coauthored Diccionario de Anatomía Comparada de Vertebrados. He died in 2001, but his impact lasted well beyond his lifetime through his research, his students, and the respect he earned in Mexican mammalogy.