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
    

Dinosaurs

Introduction (General Dinosaur Websites)

• UC Berkeley's Introduction to the Dinosaurs
• Mike Keesey's Cool Dinosauricon Website
• Dinosaur Home Page Website
• Yahoo's Selected Links to Dinosaurs and Recent Dinosaur Discoveries
• BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs
• Don Lessem's Comprehensive Dinosaur Website
• Chicago Field Museum's Dinosaur Exhibit
• Dinosaur Translation and Pronunciation Guide
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Jurassic Classroom
• Dinosaurs of Colorado
• Dinosaurs of New Mexico
• Dinosaurs of Queensland, Australia
• A Zillion Images of Dinosaurs
• An Index of Dinosaur Images on the Web
• Dino Russ' Collection of Dinosaur Images
• Chris Srnka's Dinosaur Art
• Douglas Henderson's Dinosaur (etc.) Illustrations from the Early Jurassic (1), Late Jurassic, and Cretaceous (Web Page 1 of 6)
• Dinosaur Expert Paul Sereno's Public Website and Departmental Home Page
• Image of an Area Famous for Dinosaur Fossils: Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
• The Peabody Museum's Biography of the First U.S. Professor of Paleontology, O.C. Marsh
• Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America led to Feuds among Paleontologists O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope
  or Hal Hellman's Web Article Here
• Check Out Three (!) New Books on the Marsh-Cope Feud,
  Mark Jaffe's Book from 2000, The Gilded Dinosaur...,
  David Wallace's Book from 1999, The Bonehunters' Revenge..., or
  Brooke Hartzog's Book from 1999, The Dinosaur Bone Battle....
  
  

Theropods

• Introduction to Saurischian Dinosaurs (Therapods + Sauropodomorphs)
• The Earliest Therapod Group: Ceratosauria ("Horned Reptile" Theropod Dinosaurs)
• The Remaining Therapods: Tetanuran Theropods (Diverse Carnivorous Dinosaurs)
• Big Mean Eating Machines: Carnosauria
• Tyrannosaurus rex Exposition
• Sue: The Largest and Most Complete T. rex on Display at Chicago's Field Museum
• A King-Sized Coprolite from T. rex
• Terrorsaurus! at the Australian Museum
• Mark Norell's Search for Velociraptor
• Extremely Bird-like Theropods: Coelurosauria
• The "Raptors" including Deinonychus: The Dromaeosauridae
• Paul Sereno's Expedition Sponsored by National Geographic Exploring Dinosaurs of the Sahara
• EXTRA! New "Crocodile Mimic" Dinosaur Discovered by Paul Sereno: Suchomimus tenerensis
  Visit the source of the 11/13/98 Suchomimus Image at the Austin American-Statesman Website
  
  

Ornithischians

• The "Bird-Hipped" Ornithischian Dinosaurs have a Backward-Pointed Pubis
• Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus were thyreophoran Ornithischians
• The Herbivorous Bipedal Iguanodon and "Duck-Billed" Hadrosaurs were Ornithopod Ornithischians
• The "Duck-Billed" Hadrosaurs had Elaborate Crests for Producing Sounds
• Hear a Hadrosaur Roar! (Requires RealAudio Plug-in)
• The "Different-Teeth-Lizard" had Cheeks for Chewing
• The Myth of Dinosaur Head Butting

Sauropodomorphs

• Introduction to the Sauropods
• What Did Sauropods Eat?
• The World's Largest Collection of Dinosaur Footprints
• FLASH! New Discovery of Major Trove of Fossil Embryos of Titanosaurus Found in Argentina
  Described at American Museum or National Geographic or InfoQuest Websites

Dinosaur Paleobiology: Life at Large Size

• Top Ten Misconceptions about Dinosaurs
• How Fast were Dinosaurs?
• Carl Zimmer's Article Dinosaurs in Motion (Link is Temporary - Still OK 4/00)
• Could We Bring Back Dinosaurs Like in Jurassic Park?
• Were Dinosaurs Dead-Beat Dads?
• National Geographic's Website on Dinosaur Eggs
• USGS's Website on Dinosaurs: Fact and Fiction
• What Killed The Dinosaurs?
• Evidence that Many Extinctions Came Well Before The Asteroid Impact
• What Happened 65 Mya: Asteroids or Volcanoes?