Today's Nature (30.08.01) has a short article on this fossil. It does not give any details of the fossil itself but traces its movement in Europe. It mentions that Italian palaeontologists had access to the fossil for a while. It is now apparently with a German dealer.Luis Rey said, "Look out for NATURE this week. I've just got news that it will also be featured there."
The Nature Science Update for August 29, 2001, does not list anything like that. Could it be next week?
Gautam Majumdar gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk