Paleontology
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- The Permian-Triassic Extinction
- Article by Andrew Alden proposing that new evidence and old, both support a volcanic explanation for this mass extinction when nine tenths of all species disappeared.
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- Burgess Shale Drawings
- Hannah Caine provides illustrations of some of the well-preserved animals whose fossilized remains were found in the Burgess Shale.
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- Digital Burgess - Background in Paleontology and Digital Biota
- Images of some Burgess Shale fossils.
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- Digital Burgess Conference
- Information from a conference on the Burgess Shale including professional papers.
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- The Burgess Shale
- The Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, provides an impressive exhibit of fossils.
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- The Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation
- The world's most significant fossil find. High in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is a fossil bed that details life on Earth - 520 Million years ago.
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- George C. Page Museum
- The George C. Page Museum is located at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, one of the world's most famous fossil localities, recognized for having an unusually diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals. Visitors learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, when animals such as Saber-Toothed cats and Mammoths roamed the Los Angeles Basin.
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- UNESCO World Heritage in Germany: Pit at Messel
- Eocene fossils, particularly those of early horses, can be found at Grube Messel.
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- The Rhynie Chert Research Group
- Ongoing research into the strtaigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology of an Early Devonian hot spring system. From the University of Aberdeen.
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- Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone
- Information about the paleontology of the formation from the Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum.
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- Haddonfield and the 'Bone Wars'
- Information about how the war of dinosaur discovery between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh began in Haddonfield, N.J. in 1868.
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- The Niagara Falls Museum: The Profile of Edward Drinker Cope
- Article by author Mark Jaffe tells us about Cope's Law, his discoveries, his works, and his feud with Marsh.
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- The UnMuseum: Whatever Happened to the Brontosaurus?
- Explains that the brontosaurus is actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus. It recounts how this happened.
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- Wikipedia: Bone Wars
- Tells how Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh came to compete in the discovery of dinosaur bones, and the havoc they caused.
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- Wyoming: The Bone Wars
- An illustrated history of the Bone Wars. It includes photos taken from 1904 - 1934 and includes reproductions of engravings from 1871.
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- Stanford Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould
- Includes biographical and bibliographical information, excerpts of various writings, reviews of Gould's books, links to off-site interviews with Gould, commentary on Gould and his work (both his writings and his theories in the field of paleontology), and links to further related resources on the 'net.