Karen Samonds: Paleontology, Skeletal Biology and Paleobiogeography

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	Karen E. Samonds School of Biomedical Sciences #427 Otto Hirschfeld Building The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 7 3365 7485 Fax: +61 7 3365 1766 Email: k.samonds[at]uq.edu.au

My research has focused on the origin and evolutionary history of Madagascar’s modern fauna, one of the most unique and endemic on the planet. How, when, and from where they arrived on the island has remained largely unknown due to a 65 million year gap in the fossil record that occurs precisely within the time period during which the modern vertebrate groups are hypothesized to have colonized the island. My research has sought to fill in this “gap” in a number of different ways.

I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences, at the University of Queensland.

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