SnakeTracks
 | Forums, snake care sheets, conservation, field herping, and photographs and information on more than 2,000 species of snakes worldwide.
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Understanding Evolution: Your One-Stop Source for Information on Evolution
 | This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time. It’s an excellent and enormous site that's great for both teachers and nonteachers (from the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education).
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Virtual Dinosaur Dig
 | You get to use virtual tools to uncover dinosaur bones, pack them for shipment, assemble them correctly, and learn about the dinosaur that they came from. You'll need the free Flash player.
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Dino Directory
 | A great guide to "127 of the most well-described dinosaurs, including over 600 images." Search or browse it, either way is fun and informative. From the Natural History Museum in London.
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PBS's Evolution series
 | Created to accompany a seven-part series covering topics like the struggle for survival and reconciling faith and science, this site offers a wealth of interactive information. The extensively searchable library is big added plus. Some material requires the Flash Player.
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The Leakey Foundation
 | Learn the results of the latest research into human origins!
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What is a Trilobite?
 | Find out all about these ancient sea creatures at this in-depth and complete site.
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Becoming Human
 | Beautiful, informative site that's filled with great multimedia features on the topic of human evolution. There is an interactive documentary, photos that you can turn to see 360 degree views, a glossary, articles on paleoanthropology, hot news, and more. You will need the Flash Player.
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Kid's Habitat: Dinosaur Dig San Diego Natural History Museum
 | At this fun site you can play the "Name that Reptile" game, ponder evidence for the theory that meteors caused the dinosaurs to be extinct, and find out where and how to look for fossils.
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Sue at the Field Museum
 | Meet Sue, the largest, most complete, best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in existence. Learn the details of how she was found, prepared, and put together. This site is a must-see for anyone interested in dinosaurs.
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Dive into Biodiversity
 | his is an extensive, beautiful site, created by the American Museum of Natural History.
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IMAGERS: The Adventures of Echo the Bat
 | This site offers an excellent interactive activity for grade school students. By following the adventures of Echo the Bat, they can learn about bat migration, echolocation, and even satellite imaging and remote sensing technologies. This is a clever and compelling site.
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The Bridge
 | An excellent clearinghouse for marine science education resources, this site includes links to lesson plans, on-line publications, and more.
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The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
 | This group of biological researchers was formed in 1975 to help preserve peregrine falcons in California. They currently work with birds ranging from golden eagles to burrowing owls. The site is informative, clear, and offers sections for students and educators.
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Sea Turtle Migration-Tracking Education Program
 | Learn about the wondrous long-distance migrations of sea turtles. Check the satellite tracking maps showing the positions of turtles in various parts of the world.
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OtterNet
 | Explore the world of the otter! This site has interviews with otter biologists, materials on otter conservation, otter movies, and more.
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The Dawn of Animal Life
 | Explore the early formation of the planet Earth, and the earliest appearances of animals.
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AfriCam -
 | Tune in to this webcam, and you'll be tranported to a watering hole in a South African game reserve. Watch waterbuck, hyenas and elephants come down to drink!
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Zoom Dinosaurs
 | This site offers thorough information about dinosaurs, presented in a simple frame-based format. Learn about the Albertosaurus or the Sinosauropteryx!
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Dolphins: The Oracles of the Sea
 | A comprehensive source for dolphin information, this site was a ThinkQuest collaboration of three high school students, one from Holland, one from Singapore, and one from the USA.
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The Fish Out of Time
 | The Coelacanth, a 400 million-year-old species of fish long thought extinct, still exists. Explore the biology of a possible human ancestor!
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Strange Science: the rocky road to modern paleontology:
 | Mistakes are part of science, too. This site explores the many unusual and sometimes goofy wrong turns taken in developing the modern science of paleontology.
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Belinda's Beekeeping Spot
 | Everything you need to learn to keep bees. Also a good resource for advanced beekeepers.
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Wired for Conservation
 | This site has news and information about efforts to conserve endangered habitats and species. Be forewarned: the interface is somewhat vague.
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NetFrog
 | This site guides your own frog dissection, with detailed series of pictures and QuickTime Player video clips documenting the procedure and outlining major anatomical features. An earlier Cool Site, the Virtual Frog Dissection Kit, offered an interactive dissection of an animated frog, rather than the "real" frog seen here.
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Bat Conservation Internationa
 | Though visually unremarkable, this site is a veritable compendium of information about bats, including descriptions and pictures of different bat species, audio files of bats' echolocation calls, and reading lists about for students and teachers.
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The Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
 | Find out everything you need to know about bees from this rich site. Learn how to raise bees in your backyard, or how Malaysian villagers hunt for honey. Follow bees through their hive using the BeeCam, or explore the fluctuations of bee populations with a simulated hive.
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The World of Amber
 | Learn all about amber. This site contains information on the physical properties, geologic occurrences, and other relevant information about this interesting type of fossil.
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Dilophosaurus! A Narrated Exhibition
 | A narrated tour of the discovery of dilophosaurus. This tour is provided by the UC museum of Paleontology (a cool site last year). Very interesting, but be warned that the image and sound files are large.
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The Natural History Museum: London
 | This site has informative details of London's Natural History Museums's scientific research. There are even virtual reality fossils which you can view with a VRML browser. There's a lot to explore at this site.
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The UC Museum of Paleontology
 | A fascinating exploration into the past. The "Web Lift to any Taxon" is especially interesting. Follow the path of evolution!
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