HISTORY OF LIFE

1. The Origin of Life
   
2. Earth's Earliest Life
   
3. Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes
   
4. The Evolution of Animals
   
5. Life in a Changing World
   
6. Extinction
   
7. The Early Vertebrates
   
8. Leaving the Water
   
9. Amphibians and Reptiles
   
10. Reptiles and Thermoregulation
    
11. Triassic Takeover
    
12. Dinosaurs
    
13. Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs?
    
14. The Evolution of Flight
    
15. The Origin of Mammals
    
16. Marine Reptiles
    
17. Why Flowers are Beautiful
    
18. The End of the Dinosaurs
    
19. Cenozoic Mammals
    
20. Geography and Evolution
    
21. Primates
    
22. Evolving Toward Humans
    
23. The Ice Age
    
24. Humans and the Ice Age
    

Cenozoic Mammals: Guilds and Trends

Introduction

• Introduction to the Cenozoic Era
• Table of Geological Time Scale
• Proportional Time Scale
• Insect and Plant Fossils of the Eocene

A Survey of Mammalian Evolution

• Tertiary Mammals at the Russian Paleontological Institution
• Minor Extinction Events
• Image Gallery of Living Mammals by Group
• Checklist of Living and Extinct Mammals
• National Park Service's Miocene Mammals
• Smithsonian's Virtual Tour of Fossil Mammals

Ecological Replacement: The Guild Concept

• Kingdoms Project's Mammals Through Time and Mammal Species Dynamics Through Time

Creodonts and Carnivores: Ecological Replacement or Displacement?

• On the Discovery of a Oligocene Creodont, Apterodon macrognathus
• A Few Nice Cenozoic Mammal Fossils from California

The Savanna Story

• Savanna Mammals of the Pliocene Epoch
• National Park Service's Pliocene Mammals
• African Mammals

Visit the Know Your Toes Website

Evolution by Improvement

• Introduction to Perissodactyls: The Last of a Long Line
• Virtual Tour of the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum Display of Perissodactyls
• Amazing Feets: Know Your Toes
• The Tapir Gallery
• The Eocene "Dawn Horse" Hyracotherium
• Review of Horse Evolution or the More Comprehensive Article Here
• Fossil Horse CyberMuseum
• What Makes the "Hagerman" Horse So Important?
• The Recently Extinct Quagga
• Late Pleistocene Mammal Extinction
• The Recently Extinct Quagga
• The Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon

Visit Slitherer at Eric Pianka's Evolutionary Ecology Course Web Page