pa·le·on·tol·o·gy (pl-n-tl-j)
n.
1. The study of the
forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times,
as represented by the fossils of plants, animals, and
other organisms.
- Ahl al Oughlam - Discovered in 1985 and excavated since 1989, is by far the richest late Neogene vertebrate locality of North Africa.
- Arizona's Petrified forest - Take a step back in time to 245 million years ago.
- Australian Dinosaur Story - From Footprint to Fossil - Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage.
- BBC - Science and Nature - Prehistoric Life.
- Becoming Human - Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins.
- Beringian Atlas - Paleoenvironmental Atlas.
- Birds and Dinosaurs - By Dr Paul Willis.
- Calcite Palace - This web site is about a unique group of microscopically-sized fossil algae known as calcareous nannofossils or coccoliths.
- Canadian Rockhound - Teaching Basic Paleontology to Children.
- Charlotte, the Vermont Whale - In 1849 workers unearthed the bones of a mysterious animal near the town of Charlotte.
- Collecting Fossils in California - Directions to excellent fossil collection sites. Great outdoors family fun! Tips, history, beautiful images and more.
- Dann's Dinosaur Reconstructions - Anatomical restorations of Australian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and marine reptiles with accompanying information. Also info on Australian fossil and footprint sites
- Dawn of Animal Life - While most people know of the dinosaurs from a mere 70 million years ago, very few are aware that the Earth's fossil record stretches over 3 billion years into the past.
- Dino Directory - Natural Museum of History.
- Dinobase - A dinosaur database with dinosaur names, dinosaur pictures, a dinosaur classification and more.
- Dinobird - Until recently, the origin of birds was one of evolution's great mysteries
- Dinobuzz! - Current topics.
- DinoQuest Sahara - Strange dinosaur fossils: 600-toothed giant plant-eaters, flying reptiles, massive crocodiles, and more.
- Dinorama - National Geographic. Their footsteps echo like thunder across our imaginations, millions of years after the last dinosaurs walked the Earth. Peer into the past for glimpses of ancient creatures that still grip us.
- Dinosaur Eggs @ national geographic - Join us now for an online egg hunt and catch the excitement of fossil researchers as they “hatch” fossilized dinosaur eggs to reveal the embryos inside.
- Dinosaur Floor - Learn why dinosaurs are history.
- Dinosaur Hall at the Smithsonian - See full sized dinosaurs.
- Dinosaur Illustrations - An index of Dinosaur Illustrations on the world wide web, with links to the original image and image providers home page.
- Dinosaur State Park - Five hundred dinosaur tracks are enclosed within the Exhibit Center's geodesic dome.
- Dinosaur Time Line - Dinosaur collection of dinosaur illustrations by Josef Moravec.
- Dinosaur Trackways and Trace Fossils - News from Holyoke, MA.
- Dinosaur! National Monument - Dinosaur National Monument protects a large deposit of fossil bones of creatures that lived nearly 150 million years ago.
- Dinosauria On-Line - Is intended to give the reader a broader exposure to dinosaur science.
- Dinosauricon - A website devoted to dinosaur information and illustration.
- Dinosaurs Home Page - covering extinction, fossils, types of dinosaurs, meat and plant eaters, life cycle, change, and Spanish translations.
- Dinosaurs of Ancient Queensland - Dinosaurs were animals, closely related to crocodiles and birds, that lived in the Mesozoic era between 220 and 65 million years ago.
- Dinosaurs of the Gobi - The birdlike, beaked Oviraptor returns to the nest to feed its young, in a painting based on paleontological finds in the desert in Mongolia.
- Diplodocus - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- DMNS: Follow a Fossil - The most complete T. rex ever found.
- Douglas Henderson's Earth History Illustrations - The works of artist Douglas Henderson, an illustrator of scientific reconstructions of earth history.
- Download-a-Dinosaur - Easy to make designs for a dozen paper dinosaurs...
- Earliest Life - Palaeobotanical Research Group. University Münster.
- Field Adventures in Paleontology - Let me take you on a personal tour of some dig sites and show you some of the fossils found there.
- Fighting Dinosaurs - New Discoveries from Mongolia features more than 30 of the best preserved and scientifically important dinosaur and other ancient animal fossils.
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- Find Dinosaur Pictures - An index of Dinosaur Illustrations on the world wide web, with links to the original image and image providers home page.
- Fossils, Rocks, and Time - USGS.
- Hadrosaurus.com - Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton...
- Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibit - A unique, free, permanent exhibit of dinosaur fossils available for public viewing.
- John Day Fossil Beds@
- Kronosaurus Korner - Richmond Marine Fossil Museum.
- Mesozoic Fishes - This page is devoted to fossil fishes from the Mesozoic Era, and to the researchers around the world who study them.
- Museum of Paleontology - University of Berkley.
- National Museum - Created to provide a glimpse of some of the dinosaur specimens we have on view at the National Museum of Natural History.
- NOVA Online - Curse of T. Rex - Includes an essay on the dinosaurs' companions and a Hot Science exercise about finding dinosaurs.
- Oceans of Kansas Paleontology - A virtual journey more than 85 million years "back in time" to observe some of the many strange and wonderful creatures that lived in the oceans of the Earth...
- Paleoenvironments and Glaciation in Beringia - Research funded by the National Science Foundation.
- PaleoNet Pages - A system of listservers, www pages, and ftp sites designed to enhance electronic communication among paleontologists.
- Paleoneurology - The study of brain evolution bymeans of the morphological ... relevant improvement to the development of paleoneurology.
- Permian Wood Microfossils Exhibit - providing images of permian fossil wood, tracheids, pits,and other morphological elements.The Florida Museum of Natural
- Raising the Mammoth - Step in to the land of the mammoth. exn.ca welcomes you to our very own mammoth site.
- Research & Collections at Burke Museum - As storehouses of scientific information, museums help unravel the complexity of the world we live in.
- Rex Files - Special report on Dinosaurs.
- Royal Tyrrell Museum - See the world's most extensive collection of dinosaur fossils and exhibits on prehistoric life, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
- Strange Science - Ever wonder how people figured out there used to be such things as dinosaurs? Curious about how scientists learned to reconstruct fossil skeletons?
- T REX - Visit the Cretaceous Period.
- Texas Dinosaurs! - Did you know that dinosaurs once roamed Texas?
- The Childrens Museum - Dinosphere.
- The Dinosaur Hall - Photographs From Smithsonian Exhibits
National Museum of Natural History.
- The Dinosauria - Dinosaurs, one of the most successful groups of animals (in terms of longevity) that have ever lived...
- Trilobite Cookies -Trilobites are extinct marine animals which lived gazillions of years ago.
- Tyrannosaurus Rex - The tyrannosaurs were a group of large carnivorous dinosaurs that roamed North America and Asia during the last part of the Cretaceous, 85 to 65 million years ago.
- UMPC Exibit Halls - Berkley. UMPC - Museum of Paleontology.
- University of Nebraska State Museum Division of Vertebrate Paleontology - Vertebrate Paleontology, Fossils, Nebraska, Fossil Collecting, Ashfall Fossil Beds.
- Walking With Dinosaurs
- Walking with Dinosaurs - BBC Online's brings you in-depth descriptions of over 60 dinosaurs and the eras in which they lived.
- When Dinosaurs Roamed America - A breakthrough look at newly discovery dinosaur species and how they dominated the land in what is now North America.
- Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre - Learn About Beringia - Between two continents on the edge of the Arctic lay the ancient place called Beringia.
- Zoom Dinosaurs - A comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension.
 
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