G331: 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.palass.org/ The Palaeontological Association

http://www.museumoftheearth.org/ The Paleontological Research Institute

http://www.vertpaleo.org/ 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/ 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.fallsoftheohio.org/ Falls of the Ohio Museum

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/index.html Natural History Museum, London

http://www.museumoftherockies.org/ Museum of the Rockies

Individuals

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/ Oceans of Kansas

http://www.dinoruss.com/ Dino Russ's page

http://www.paulsereno.org/ Paul Sereno's Dinosaur page

http://www.strangescience.net/ Strange Science

Paleo Ring

http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=paleoring

Commercial

http://www.discovery.com/ The Discovery Channel

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://www.paulsereno.org/ Paul Sereno's Dinosaur page

http://www.search4dinosaurs.com/index.html dinosaur illustrations

http://www.dinoheart.org/ Willo, the Dinosaur with a Heart

http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/ Dinosaurs at the Smithsonian

Trilobites

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.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/crinoid.html Kansas crinoids

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/echinodermata/crinoidea/crinoidea.html Tree of Life

Brachiopods

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

Classifications

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html The Tree of Life homepage

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/historyoflife.php Phylogeny of Life

Creationism and Evolution

http://www.nap.edu/html/creationism/ 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://paleobiology.si.edu/blastPast/ Blast from the Past

http://miac.uqac.ca/MIAC/chicxulub.htm Chicxulub Crater

Miscellaneous

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ Learning from the Fossil Record

http://palaeo-electronica.org/ Palaeontologia Electronica