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But a few days later, as Sampson and other members of the expedition continued excavating the site where the tail was found, Sampson hit the paleontological jackpot.

"This was the most terrific find I have been associated with in more than 25 years of field work," says Krause, who now has led three expeditions to Madagascar as part of a project to map the entire fauna of the region. The expedition team will return to Madagascar in June to continue their work.

Other study authors include Catherine Forster and Patrick O'Connor, SUNY Stony Brook; Peter Dodson, University of Pennsylvania; and Florent Ravoavy, Universite d'Antananarivo, Madagascar. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, The Dinosaur Society and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

This is one of several projects on which Witmer and Sampson are collaborators. The two are partners on a project dubbed the "DinoNose Grant," which also is supported by the National Science Foundation. Witmer is the principal investigator on that project, designed to study extinct and modern-day animals in an effort to reconstruct soft tissues not preserved in the fossil record.

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Contacts:
Lawrence Witmer, Ohio University, (740) 593-9489; witmer1@ohiou.edu
Scott Sampson, New York Institute of Technology, (516) 686-3807; ssampson@iris.nyit.edu
David Krause, State University of New York, Stony Brook, (516) 444-3117; dkrause@mail.som.sunysb.edu

Written by Kelli Whitlock, Ohio University, (740) 593-0383; kwhitlock1@ohiou.edu

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Contact: Kelli Whitlock
kwhitlock1@ohiou.edu
740-593-0383
Ohio University
15-May-1998