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Recommended Web Sites

Stratigraphic Principles and Geologic Time

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/geology.html (Background)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html (Time Machine)

Plate Tectonics

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html (Basic Concepts and Animation)
http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm (Paleogeographic Maps)


Evolution and Classification

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/history/index.shtml (History of Evolutionary Thought)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html (General)
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html (Tree of Life Project)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/threedomains.html (Three Domains Classification)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal (Kingdom Animalia)

Precambrian Earth and Life

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/precambrian.html (Precambrian Time)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/hadean.html (Hadean)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/archaean.html (Archaean)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacterialh.html (Bacteria)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanofr.html (Cyanobacteria)
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/life/index.html (Life on Mars?)
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/dec00_seds/ (New Images of the Landscape of Mars)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/vendian.html (Ediacaran/Vendian fauna)


Paleozoic Earth and Life

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleozoic/paleozoic.html (General)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleozoic/paleozoicstrat.html (Stratigraphy)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/camb.html (Cambrian)
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/ (Burgess Shale)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/burgess.html (Burgess Shale)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chordata/chordatasy.html (Modern Hemichordates)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian/devonian.html (Devonian)

http://www.museums.org.za/sam/resource/palaeo/cluver/index.html (Permian Reptiles)
http://imperial.park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/extincmenu.html (Mass Extinctions)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0009/feature4/ (Permian Extinction)

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=fbasalts (Permian Extinction)

Mesozoic Earth and Life

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/mesozoic.html (General Mesozoic)
http://imperial.park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/cretmass.html (K/T Extinction)
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/prelim/171B_prel/171Bfig11.html (ODP Extinction Evidence)


Dinosaurs

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html (General Dinosaurs)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/saurischia.html (Saurischian Dinosaurs)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ornithischia/ornithischia.html (Ornithischian Dinosaurs)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pindino.html (Dinosaurs from Mongolia)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html (Dinosaur-Bird Relationships)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/origins.html (Origin of Flight)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/pterosauria.html (Pterosaurs)

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/a.buckley/dino.htm (K/T Extinction - Impact)
http://filebox.vt.edu/artsci/geology/mclean/Dinosaur_Volcano_Extinction/pages/studentv.html (K/T Extinction - Volcanism)

Cenozoic Earth and Life

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cenozoic/cenozoic.html (General Cenozoic)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/tertiary/mio.html (Miocene)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mammal.html (Mammals)

http://paleo.amnh.org/bjburger/fossilmammal/index.html (Fossil Mammal Hall)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/ungulate.html (Ungulates, Hoofed Mammals)

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/lines/IAtransitional2.shtml (Evolution of Horses)

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/index.html (Evidence For Human Evolution)

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/pelvis.html (Hominid and Ape Comparisons)

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/specimen.html (Prominent Homonid Fossils)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/labrea.html (La Brea Tar Pits)

http://www.tarpits.org/education/guide/flora/index.html (La Brea Fauna)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/hol.html (Quaternary)
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/ (Ice Ages)

Natural History Museum Sites

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/historyoflife/mysteries/mfarchive5.html (Mystery Fossils)

http://www.calacademy.org (California Academy of Sciences)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/history/humans_evolv.shtml (Human Evolution)


News Articles

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/09/MNGQM844A624.DTL&type=science (Mars)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/30/MNGT091ATV1.DTL (3.4 Billion Year Old Stromatolites)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/20/MNGR88BG5D1.DTL (Ediacaran Fossils)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_964000/964027.stm (Giant Trilobite Found)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archiv e/1998/09/24/MN64357.DTL (Coelacanth - Living Fossils)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/01/MN268.DTL (New Genetic Research on the Coelacanth)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/17/MNGPR2DCH81.DTL (Frog From Age of Gondwanaland)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/28/MN61645.DTL (Flying Reptile Fossil)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/03/MN111169.DTL (First Bipedal Reptile)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/23/MN77982.DTL (Dinosaur-Bird Links)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/802009.stm (Early Feathers)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/08/MNG9995P9D1.DTL (Feathered Dinosaurs)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2004/08/05/mn_fossil05gr.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=MNGC682OFU1.DTL&directory=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/05&type=science (Flying Dinosaurs)
http://cnn.com/TECH/science/9901/22/fast.dinosaurs/index.html (Dinosaur Metabolism)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/12/MNGHB86G4Q1.DTL&type=science (T. rex)

http://www.bambiraptor.com/Pages/text%20Only.html (New Baby Raptor Dinosaur)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/30/MN138007.DTL (Dinosaur Feeding Behavior)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/24/MNGQ18U8TG1.DTL (Aquatic Reptiles, Protorosaurs)

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/a.buckley/dino.htm (K/T Extinction - Impact)
http://filebox.vt.edu/artsci/geology/mclean/Dinosaur_Volcano_Extinction/pages/studentv.html (K/T Extinction - Volcanism)

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/impact_extinction_010222-1.html ( More K/T Extinction)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/21/MN10462.DTL (Complete Wooly Mammoth Fossil)
http://www.crystalinks.com/wooleyanimals.html (More on Wooly Mammoths)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/07/MN113749.DTL (DNA Evidence for Out of Africa Model)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/28/MNGIE9HQ6O1.DTL&type=science (Dwarf Proto-Humans)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/09/000919080927.htm (Himalayan Ice and Global Warming)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/22/MNGIV9VF3G1.DTL&type=science (Ape-Human Common Ancestor)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/18/MNG7M9TG5U1.DTL&type=printable (Humans - Efficient Runners)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/18/MNG7M9TG561.DTL&type=printable (Humans in North America)