G231:
Paleontology on the Web
The World Wide Web, or simply the "Web", is an amazing source of prolific information in our modern, high-tech world. How might we use the Web in our study of paleontology?
Evaluating Web resources:
Before we start assembling information from the Web, consider the following issues:
How reliable and complete is the information we obtain from any particular site?
How can we evaluate the quality of information from any particular site?
Who, or what organization, is supplying the information?
Does the information provide citations and references, or is it just out there?
Search Engines:
What are the best search engines to use?
How do you conduct an efficient search? (What happens if you just enter "paleontology" into a search engine?)
Selected Web sites
Professional Societies
http://PaleoSoc.org The Paleontological Society
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/Paleonet/PalAss/index.html The Palaeontological Association
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/pri/ The Paleontological Research Institute
http://www.museum.state.il.us/svp// The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Museums
http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/ The Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta, Canada
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.html University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/index.html The American Museum of Natural History, New York
http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/index2.html The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
http://www.fmnh.org/Home.htm The Field Museum, Chicago
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/ Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
http://www.mnh.si.edu/ The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/nathistmus.html List of natural history museums
http://www.ket.org/content/trips/falls/history.htm Falls of the Ohio Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/galleries/ Natural History Museum, London
http://museum.montana.edu/ Museum of the Rockies
Individuals
http://www.oceansofkansas.com/ Oceans of Kansas
http://www.ualberta.ca/~kbrett/Trilobites.html Kevin's Trilobite homepage
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/dinos_home.html Dino Russ's page
http://dinosaur.uchicago.edu/ Paul Sereno's Dinosaur page
http://dinosaur.umbc.edu/ The Dinosauricon
http://www.iwaynet.net/~mperona/chlist.htm checklist for fossil collecting
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5144/ Fossil Freak's homepage
http://www.strangescience.net/ Strange Science
http://www.ualberta.ca/~kbrett/ Kevin's Page of Death
http://www.baileylink.net/webfut/fossil.htm Greg's Fossil page
Paleo Ring
http://www.pitt.edu/~mattf/paleoring.html
Commercial
http://www.discovery.com/ The Discovery Channel
http://www.global-expos.com/Prep_supplies.html fossil preparation supplies
http://www.dinosaur-museum.org/ The Dinosaur Museum
http://www.bhigr.com/ Black Hills Institute
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=fossildealers;list Fossil Dealers Web ring
Dinosaurs
http://www.fmnh.org/sue/default.htm Tyrannosaurus Sue
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/pata.html Dinorama, National Geographic Society
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html Zoom Dinosaurs
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/dinos_home.html Dino Russ's page
http://dinosaur.uchicago.edu/ Paul Sereno's Dinosaur page
http://web.syr.edu/~dbgoldma/pictures.html dinosaur illustrations
http://dinosaur.umbc.edu/ The Dinosauricon
http://www.dinoheart.org/index.html Willo, the Dinosaur with a Heart
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/dino/ Dinosaurs at the Smithsonian
Trilobites
http://www.ualberta.ca/~kbrett/Trilobites.html Kevin's Trilobite homepage
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/trilobite/trilobite.html The Semi-Compleat Trilobite
Crinoids
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/echinodermata/crinoidea.html Intro to Crinoids
http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/Publications/ancient/f21_crin.html Kansas crinoids
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/echinodermata/crinoidea/crinoidea.html Tree of Life
Brachiopods
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/robss/ Brachio-Philes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/brachiopoda/brachiopoda.html UCMP page
Molluscs
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/mollusks.shtml USGS site
http://www.sdnhm.org/research/paleontology/clamsph.html Clams
http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/FosCephs.html cephalopods
http://www.kheper.auz.com/gaia/biosphere/molluscs/Cephalopoda.htm more cephalopods
Classifications
http://ag.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html The Tree of Life homepage
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phylogeny.html Phylogeny of Life
Creationism and Evolution
http://www4.nas.edu/opus/evolve.nsf Science and Creationism, National Academy of Sciences
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/ Teaching About Evolution
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Lipps.html The Decline of Reason
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Scott1.html Dealing with Anti-Evolutionism
http://www.science-spirit.org/ Science and Spirit
Extinction
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/blast/ Blast from the Past
http://www.geod.emr.ca/html-public/GSDinfo/English/Chicxulub_Crater.html Chicxulub Crater
Miscellaneous
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ Learning from the Fossil Record
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/paleo/toc.htm Palaeontologia Electronica