Karen E. Samonds
Assistant Professor/Curator
     
     
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  Research Redpath Museum, McGill University
  Publications 859 Sherbrooke St. W.
  Past and Present Collaborators Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada
  Paleontological Fieldwork Telephone: (514) 398-5421
  Links Fax: (514) 398-1643
    Email: karen.samonds@mcgill.ca
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

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 Curator at the Redpath Museum and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Dentistry.
 

 
 

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