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WEB SITES
FOSSIL PORTALS AND SOURCES

Colossal Fossils - Many links and fossil identification keys, images, collecting safety and games.

Earth Sciences Portal - Berkeley - University of California list of technical Earth Science resources.

Education Planet Links to fossil sites and more! Crocdiles, trilobites and dinosaurs for starters.

Dinosaur & Fossil Links - The Science Spot Kid Zone Dinosaur and Fossil Links page provides access to sites about dinosaurs, geologic time, museums, dinosaur facts and figures, illustrations, clip art and images. There are also links to state fossil sites, the UCMP Web Time Machine and the Jurassic Park Institute.

Discovering Fossils in the United Kingdom - Lots of facts on fossils in general.

Educational Encyclopedia - This fossil portal page includes information on a lengthy alphabetized list of fossils including amber, crinoids, fossils of some states, shark teeth, corals, trilobites, plant and animal trace fossils and plant fossils.

Kids Online Resources Paleontology - Kids OLR has lots of choices from fun and games to fossil research, museums and many aspects of paleontology.

Smithsonian Portal of Paleontology resources chosen by the Smithsonian - microfossils to paleographic maps.

MUSEUMS

Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia - Much to explore, learn about Lewis and Clark's knowledge of Ice Age animals.

American Museum of Natural History New York Click on "Science" to find the Paleo content.

Bryce Canyon National Park paleontology - This web site is changing right now (June 2004) but will include some fossil information soon. Look for fossil horses here when the construction is done!

Field Museum - Chicago- Not just Sue, but lots of rocks and fossils. Click on "search" and type fossils in the box to find many reports on fish, plants, mammals, invertebrates and more.

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument - Click on "Nature and Science" to learn about horse fossils in Idaho.

Humboldt State University Natural History Museum Click on the fossil links on the home page of the University's online museum. HSU is in Arcata, California.

Indianapolis Children's Museum Dinosphere This is a new exhibit about dinosaurs at the ICM.

Miller Museum at Queen's University Kingston Ontario Canada - Explore ancient life in the Dawn of Animal Life exhibit.

Museum of Paleontology at the University of California Berkeley - Plan to spend some time here - dinosaurs, geologic time, catalogs, images, links, glossary, more!

Natural History Museum - London England Under "Learning" click on "Kids" to visit some cool fossil features and interactive games. Try your skills at "Quest"!

Page Museum La Brea Tar Pits One of the world's most famous locations! Dire wolves, saber-toothed cats buried in tar. Don't forget to click on "Fossil Laboratory" to see paleontologist at work!

Peabody Natural History Museum at Yale Explore the Age of Reptiles exhibit, click on "Visit the Collections" to read about the other features - the Ichthyology collection is about fossil fishes.

Royal Ontario Museum - Enter "fossils" in the search window to quickly find excellent fossil pages.

San Diego Natural History Museum Link on homepage takes you to Fossil Hunters - San Diego! Here is a list of paleontology resources recommended by SDNHM

Science Museum of Minnesota Dinosaurs and Fossils Gallery Overview of the museum's paleontology collection including, Diplodocus, Triceratops, fossil mammals, visible paleontology lab, primeval swamp. The site includes a link to the museum's research and collections page where you can link to the paleontology research page. This page includes links to several articles on new research and discoveries -- click on some of these to see paleontologists at work on digs around the world.

Sedgewick Museum at the University of Cambridge, this is a neat site that walks viewers through the museum from the fossil, geology and mineral links on the home page.

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - Explore Exhibits, Research & Collections, Educational Resources or type a keyword like "paleobiology" in the Search window.

Virtual Fossil Museum - Informative, interesting, beautiful virtual museum.

IMAGES & VIDEOS

Meet Some Other Kids Who are Interested in Fossils!

PBS - Watch some cool fossil video clips here! The video clip in Activity One is about the fossils at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Indiana! Look for the link for that site on this page, too!

Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology - Cool slide show! Images, glossary, links, more.

FOSSILS

All About Trilobites! Award-winning trilobite resource. This is where the "walking trilobite" graphic came from.

Backyard Fossils This site has lots of links, information and pictures for the collector.

Big Guys from Ohio Isotelus is a big trilobite that is found around Cincinnati.

Blastoids Blastoids can be found in Indiana -- this site tells what they are.

Canadian Nautiloids This page has a very good picture of a fossil nautiloid's anatomy.

Check out Indiana Crinoids Indiana is world-famous for these fossils!

Dino Hall of Fame This is a kind of neat ranking of dinos from FactMonster.

Fossil Collecting in the United Kingdom - This site is 'brilliant" as they say in England!

Mastodons This is a great intro to mastodons from the Illinois State Museum.

Mastodons - Discovery Channnel- Click on Ice Age Giants to see movie clips and listen to an audio narration.

Nautiloids Beautiful site about cephalopods which means "head-foot" - octopi, squid, nautiloids.

Smithsonian Fossil Tutorial - Imprints of the Past tells about some ancient invertebrates and vertebrates.

Super Croc - The beast that ate dinosaurs for breakfast! One of my favorites! There's a mini movie here, too.

Trilobites Amazing looking "bugs"!

Trilobites and their Evolution Through Time This site is scholarly and detailed and very interesting.

Trilobite Portal A list of sites from Cybersleuth Kids.

Vertebrate Fossil Interactive Site From the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

FOSSILS BY GEOLOGIC SITE

A Fossil Dig at Sea? Living fossils of the deep . . .

Calvert Cliffs Fossils of the ancestors of the Great White Shark!

"Clickable" Time Scale Very cool chart and animation of continental drift!

Falls of the Ohio - This a great web site all about an important site in Indiana -- the Falls of the Ohio State Park.

Illinois State Museum - Mazon Creek fossils Important Midwest fossil site!

Mazon Creek Fossils at Yale

North American Fossils Chart Great chart from Enchanted Learning.

Science Web visits the Burgess Shale - Meet some strange really ancient creatures!

Smithsonian looks at the Burgess Shale Read about this very important research site in Canada.

FOSSILS BY STATE

Florida Fossils Covers and identifies vertebrate and invertebrate fossils.

Indiana Mastodons A page from IUPUI!

Indiana Geology Important information about collecting in Indiana.

Illinois SGS Very nice site from the State Geological Survey.

List of State Fossils

List of State Dinosaurs

Mastodon State Historic Site Missouri Fascinating history!

Minnesota DNR Search on "fossils" to read about Minnesota's ancient life.

GEOLOGIC TIME

Cracking the Ice Age - PBS NOVA - Good explanations of the glaciation of the earth.

Earth Floor Nice lessons on Earth's ages.

Earth Like a Puzzle - Scripps Institute of Oceanography Yes, Oceanographers study the Earth, too!

Geo Mysteries - cool time chart with embedded fossil pictures.

Ice Age Mammals Neat stuff from Enchanted Learning.

Interactive Ribbon Timeline - This page is part of the Indiana Geological Survey site and it has a really cool interactive time ribbon that you can click on to see some creatures that lived during different geological periods!

Ordovician Fossils in Ohio Sea life in Ohio?

Ordovician Fossils from the University of Kentucky - life in the inland seas.

Record of Time: An Introduction to the Nature of Fossils and Paleoanthropological Dating Methods. This site has lots of very technical science content. Learn how fossils are created, how they are dated, what the fossil record tells us and how fossils are named. This site includes a very cool talking glossary -- when you click on the speaker icon beside the entry, a voice pronounces the word for you!

Understanding Geologic Time - Dynamic exploration of Earth's time.

Virtual Time Travel - Neat stuff from the Paleontological Research Institute!

PALEONTOLOGISTS

Curse of T. Rex - PBS NOVA Dig Story

Meet Kristi Curry-Rogers, Paleontologist

Meet a Motorcycle-Riding Paleontologist - the Diva of the Devonian

Meet a Vertebrate Paleontologist

Project Exploration - Link to great resources including a link to Ask the Paleowizard within the the Q&A Library, Paul Serreno's page and play a movie of the giant African dinosaur exhibit.

So You Want to be a Fossil Hunter? Read more here!

Top Ten Paleontologists according to Enchanted Learning

What happens to fossils after they are found?

Virtual Field Trips Explore with Lynne Clos, Paleontologist.

REFERENCES

Big Dig from the American Museum of Natural History cool paleontology stuff for kids.

Earth Science Resources Recommended by the San Diego Natural History Museum

Encyclopedia.com - Search on paleontology, fossils, geologic timescale - lots of links.

Humboldt State Database This is a page from the HSU fossil database - nice specimen photographs, lots of Indiana fossils.

London NHM Picture Library - You can download low resolution images from here - 30,000 pictures.

Nearctica Paleo Site - Read about amber, geologic periods, Ice Ages, localities for collecting, more.

Paleo Education from University of Kentucky fossil identifier tools.

Pitt State List Cool Science Sites list.

Smithsonian Glossaries Portal - very cool!

Science Portal - Great list of science resources from Scienceacademy.com.

UC Berkeley Database - Great reference associated with the Paleontology collections.

INTERESTING READING

Kids on Digs! - Read about Project Exploration.

National Geographic Paleontology and Archaeology News -- Read the latest on digs, exploration, discovery, theories and exhibits.

ACTIVITIES/GAMES/PUZZLES & INTERACTIVE STUFF

Discoveryschool.com - A lot of the clip art on this pathfinder came from this site, and you can download it, too, for free! You can also create word puzzles here and try some Brain Boosters! There are even some riddles and puzzles about time!

Factmonster Dinosaur Central

Geography Puzzle from the USGS

Match the Creatures Game

National Geographic Map Machine

Natural History Museum London Kids see what kids in the UK can do at their NHM site. See if you can find the fossils in QUEST!

Neill's Ask a Geologist - Got any rockhound questions?

Try a Fossil Wordsearch! - Try some paleontology games!

USGS Kids Page - Ask a USGS Scientist a Question!

Windows on the Universe -- really cool science and fun site!

Zoom Dinosaurs - Interactive Earth Science site at Enchanted Learning. Explore the dynamic geologic time scale, Earth activities, quizzes and crafts, interactive Earth puzzle, links to NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab, planet Earth data and science.

 

 

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