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| Resources for palaeontologists, particularly paleontological professionals and postgraduate students. Includes links to museums, professional societies, conference information and job listings. Geological research links are listed by period, and a virtual art gallery displays representations of ancient life forms through digital imagery. | |
| Full text electronic journal detailing developments in palaeontology and related fields. Articles may be read in English, Spanish, French, and German. | ||
| Illustrated course notes for paleoecology and biostratigraphy, both of which arise from a biological response to environmental conditions (water chemistry, deposition) and which are subsequently geologic detail (geochemistry, formations, bedding, etc.). The course includes discussion of sampling and quality control in processing and examination methods, how biostratigraphy and paleoecology are derived and how well they work, and some specific subjects such as deep water and sub-salt biostratigraphy and quantitative methods. | ||
| Article addressing the origin and early evolution of birds and whether or not they are derived from coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs. Two theropods from the Upper Jurassic / Lower Cretaceous Chaomidianzi Formation of Liaoning province in China are described. | ||
| Hypertext version of a book which teaches information on how scientists use fossil evidence to reconstruct the past. It also offers ideas about using palaeontology to teach the scientific process. | ||
| Annotated links to Internet resources for palaeobotanists, with an Upper Triassic bias. | ||
| The Museum's mission is to maintain and develop its collections and use them to promote the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world. Its collections of over 68,000,000 specimens, gathered from across the globe, represent more than 300 years of scientific collecting and study and are at the heart of the institution's scientific research, information services, education and exhibition activities. Online displays include Life Galleries, Earth Galleries, Wildlife Garden and VR trilobites. | ||
| List of Alwynne B Beaudoin's personal publications dealing with palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeological work in western Canada. Includes a Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations, Paleoenvironmental Records of Postglacial Climate Change in the Prairie, and a 'Dung File' of references on pollen, parasites, and plant remains in coprolites and latrines. | ||
| An exhibition of original publications related to the history of dinosaur discovery. | ||
| Society founded in 1957 which aims to further the study of palaeontology through publication of academic journals (Palaeontology and Special Papers in Palaeontology), Newsletters, field guides, meetings and field excursions. The interests of members include macropalaeontology, micropalaeontology, palaeobotany, vertebrate palaeontology, palaeoecology, and biostratigraphy. | ||
| Joseph Leidy (1823 1891), known as the 'Father of American Vertebrate Palaeontology', was a pioneer in the areas of parasitology and protozoology whose interest and expertise also extended into the scientific areas of anatomy, natural history, entomology, geology, and pathology. This resource provides a biographical timeline of one of America's great scientists, charting his life and work using images and essays. | ||
| UCMP's mission is the conservation of palaeontological materials, collections development, and research and instructional support. The Museum's collections include protists, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Extensive Web exhibits follow the themes of phylogeny (the 'family tree' of life), geological time (the temporal existence of groups of organisms) and evolutionary thought (evolutionary topics and scientists in their historical context). | ||
| Index of resources on evolution. Includes academic departments, organisations, museums and exhibits, collections, molecular evolution, palaeontology and natural history, journals, books and software. | ||
| Provides information pertaining to dinosaur and vertebrate palaeontology. Offers a variety of material including details of digs and exhibits, and a range of artwork, publications, and societies. | ||
| Highlights of an exhibition recreating a 23 to 30 million-year-old Dominican amber forest. Amber is a form of tree resin - an organic substance whose structure has changed very little over time - and the reconstruction derives from direct evidence provided by the amber fossils or inferred on the basis of plant-feeding forms of insects. | ||
| A collection of biological science resources for teaching and research. Includes articles, lectures, activities, diagrams and images for a range of subjects such as botany, cell biology, ecology, palaeontology and zoology. | ||
| Abstracts of papers presented at the annual meeting of scientists concerning the study of plant taphonomy, from 1999 onwards. Also includes tables of contents of proceedings from earlier meetings. | ||
| Offers evidence of an asteroid impact 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs became extinct. Features images from a deep sea core sample which supports the hypothesis that an asteroid collision devastated terrestrial and marine environments worldwide, and shows a record of flourishing marine life before the event, followed by mass extinction, the evolution of new species and slow recovery of surviving life forms after the event. | ||
| Study of the dinosaur footprints of the middle Jurassic (Ravenscar Group) of the Cleveland area of Yorkshire. | ||
| Illustrated dinosaur exhibition and information, including recent dinosaur bones found in Scotland. | ||
| Resources exploring the phenomenon of Piltdown Man, a discovery in the field of human evolution now known to be a hoax. Documents the efficacy of Piltdown from its origins in 1912 17 to the 1953-55 expose. Includes articles which set the context of early 20th-century anthropology, examples of favourable and critical commentary on Piltdown Man, and pieces setting out the prosecution and defence of likely hoax suspects. | ||
| Issues offer articles, images, and maps which examine paleoanthropology, palaeontology, recent archaeological finds throughout the world, plant domestication, and remote sensing. A guide to archaeology resources on the Internet also features. | ||
| Resource tracing the evolution of the horse. Gives details about the name 'horse' itself, the relationship between artiodactyls and perissodactyls as determined by their hooves, changes affecting the bones of horse feet over time, a stratigraphy describing the layering process of fossilisation, and a geological time scale of horses' evolution. | ||
| Online database of radiocarbon measurements indicating the age of archaeological and vertebrate sites in Canada. Searches can be conducted by entering Borden block, Borden number, site name, province, laboratory number, material dated, cultural affiliation, or range of dates. Information returned includes full radiocarbon (carbon 14) measurements, including provenience, taxon information, and comments. Also available in French. | ||
| A set of preliminary, broad scale ecosystem map reconstructions is presented for the world at the Last Glacial Maximum (18,000 years ago) and the early Holocene (8,000 years ago), the mid Holocene (5,000 years ago) and for comparison 'present-potential' maps that may be regarded as approximating the late Holocene vegetation distribution as it would - or might - have been without agricultural modification. | ||
| Information about the discovery of the fossilised heart of a small herbivore called a Thescelosaurus which revealed a structure more like that of a bird or a mammal than a reptile, suggesting that some dinosaurs had high metabolic rates. Includes images of the 3 D reconstruction of the dinosaur's chest cavity. | ||
| An introduction to geology and palaeontology through history with exhibits, scientific discoveries, and theories. | ||
| Catalogue of links which cover natural resources and energy, palaeontology, biology, botany, and zoology. | ||
| Society concerned with protecting fossil specimens and sites of scientific interest, as well as keeping them available to professional and amateur collectors. Includes the Society's Code for Fossil Collecting. | ||
| Guide to phylogenetic systematics, the study of the way that biologists reconstruct the pattern of events that have led to the distribution and diversity of life. Covers an introduction to cladistics, methodology and implications of cladistics, and the need for cladistics. | ||
| Society for the advancement of the education of the public in the study of micropalaeontology. Publishes the Journal of Micropalaeontology and a Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells in two parts each year. | ||
| Searchable database holding descriptions and occurrences of extinct plants. Provides information about genera, taxonomy, and species location. Occurrence data can be plotted onto palaeogeographic maps. | ||
| Annual index to worldwide zoological literature, first published in 1864. It is available in print, compact disc and online formats, providing access to world literature via author name, taxon name or subject, geographical and palaeontological terms. | ||
| A database of late Quaternary distribution of mammal species which documents the evolution of mammal communities in the US during the last 40,000 years. | ||
| The Peabody Museum's collections are at the core of the museum's exhibit philosophy. Exhibitions include the Age of Reptiles, Invertebrate Paleontology, Fossil of the Month, Birds of Connecticut, The Social Life of Cliff Swallows, Natural History Dioramas, An Ndjuka Maroon Shrine from Suriname, Designing Dinosaurs, and Dogs in Native America. | ||
| Information about the prehistoric people known as Neanderthals and their modern successors, considering human evolution by addressing the relation between the two groups, and the interaction between them. Fossil and genetic evidence is presented for Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, Siberia, and Western and Central Asia. Bibliographies of related books and serials are given, together with a listing of anthropological museums around the world. | ||
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