Paleontology & Evolution Web Sites

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http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylongeny.html

The Tree of Life - this web site contains information about phylogeny and biodiversity. Information is presented about the phylogenic relationships and characteristics of organisms, and how this relates to the unity and diversity among living organisms. This site also contains a list of links to other related web sites.

 

http://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/natural/paleo/intro.htm

The Provincial Museum of Alberta - within the Natural History section of this web site there is a section on Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology which is devoted to the study of fossil organisms that lived during the last 1.8 million years. This site features vertebrates that have been found in Alberta within this time period.

 

http://tyrrell.magtech.ab.ca/

Royal Tyrrell Museum - the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology is located in Drumheller, Alberta. This site explains the programs the museum conducts; some programs are conducted out of the museum, others are field based. This site also features a virtual tour of the museum.

 

http://www.levins.com/dinosaur.html

Site of Historic 1858 Dinosaur Find - in 1858 in Haddonfield, New Jersey a fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke conducted a massive dig, and uncovered a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton. This web site focuses on the 1858 find, and the site today.

 

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html

Honolulu Community College - presents Dinosaurs in Hawaii this site features a narrated tour of numerous dinosaur exhibits.

 

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

UC Museum of Paleontology - this site features online exhibits, as well as online catalogs which allow you to search for specimen data. This site also provides information on education and outreach programs, as well as the other services offered by the museum.

 

http://www.dinosociety.org/

The Dinosaur Society - non-profit organization which supports basic research in the dinosaur sciences and promotes public education about dinosaurs.

 

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

The Florida Museum of Natural History - this site provides information on the museum, and features "The Museum's Web"; here you can visit a virtual exhibit, or check out the photo gallery. One feature of this site is a virtual exhibit called "Fossil Horses In Cyberspace" and through taking this virtual tour you can learn about paleontology and evolution by exploring the fossil record of horses.

 

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

The Natural History Museum - in London, England has a section devoted to Paleontology. This web site also features a project called "Virtual Reality Trilobites", which is a project that has an ultimate objective of creating a museum exhibit that exists solely within the virtual reality medium. Currently there are virtual reality fossils available for downloading.

 

http://www-nmbe.unibe.ch/index.html

Natural History Museum - this museum is located in Berne, Switzerland. Within the department of Earth Sciences there is a section devoted to Paleontology; one feature of this section is information and pictures of Swiss fossils.

 

http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/HuntMus/dinosaur/index.html

Hunterian Museum - one feature of this web site is the dinosaur exhibit.

 

http://www.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/nmmnh/exhibits.html

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - some of the features of this web site include a "Dinosaur Exhibit", a "Fossil Works Exhibit" and a link to the "New Mexico Friends of Paleontology".

 

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/info/current/dinosaur.html

The Franklin Institute Science Museum's Mandell Center - this web site features the "Dinosaur Families of Jurassic Park".

 

http://superior.carleton.ca/~tpatters/Museum/hvpmdoor.html

Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum: Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre - this web site enables users to take a virtual tour on geoscience topics related to the geologic time scale and the Earth's crust.