http://www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/galleri/montre/english/m_insekter_e.htm
-
Insects
and Millipeds gives some information
about the appearance of insects on land.
There is a link to a list of pictures
of fossil insects.
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/insects/origins/origins.html
-
What
Did the Insects Come From?
An excellent page on the evolution of
insects with helpful illustrations.
Go on to the next page or two and learn
about metamorphism and
the stages of an insect's life. This is
all good information,
and easy to understand;
you could use these pages with your students.
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/insects/overview/overview.html
Insects
in the Big Picture This
page shows how insects are related to
other animals
http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/adaptive_radiation.htm
Adaptive
Radiation - Why Most Animals are Insects
Excellent one page discussion of the success
of insects on land.
Top of Page
Amphibians
http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/
-
The
Froggy Page: LOTS of frog links! Something
for everyone! Good information, clip art,
science tutorials, environmental studies,
and links that are just for fun.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/amphibians/index.htm
A
Virtual Exhibit on Canada's Biodiversity:
Focus on Amphibians This
beautiful exhibit gives
clear and comprehensive information.
It has excellent illustrations and pictures
where students click on particular spots
to identify animals. It covers the
amphibian life cycle with flash animations
and gives glimpses into virtual habitats
which have the same characteristics as
the places where these animals live.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/amphibians.shtml
Enchantedlearning.com:Printout
page with information on many life forms
and printout sheets for teachers and home
schoolers. A good resource.
http://www.angellis.net/Web/DFG-amp/Gerrothorax.htm
Gerrothorax: a
picture of this primitive land animal. (It
was not a dinosaur) In what ways is
this animal still adapted to life in the
wate? What changes in body form would
be helpful to its survival on land?
Top of Page
Reptiles and Dinosaurs
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/lacertids.html
Good information about the life and adaptive
features of a lizard.
http://www.carleton.ca/Museum/velociraptor/projec15.htm
Velociraptor and Exothermy This beautiful, easy to read,
informative site gives an introduction to the Velocitoraptor, a swift and
intelligent dinosaur. Excellent, and would be very useful for classroom
assignments.
http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/buckna/eight.htm
Dinosaur Skeletons:
Go down the page a little way and you
will see some drawings of dinosaur skeletons.
Take a minute to look at them and try
to visualize what the entire animal looked
like. Which ones do you think
look as if they were fast runners?
Why? We can make a lot of good guesses
from seeing the bones!
http://dinosauricon.com/
The Dinosauricon. WOW!!!!
Mike Keesey has created a terrific
site with lots of information,
gorgeous pictures, and information on
how dinosaurs are classified.
There are 1200 pictures by
artists. Don't miss this one!
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/allabout/Evolution.shtml
All
About Dinosaurs: This
series of pages tells about the evolution
of dinosaurs. It has many pictures
and is suitable for readers from Elementary
School and up. It is very informative
and easy to learn from.
http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/index.shtml
Dinosaur
and Paleontology Dictionary: This
is an excellent
site if you are looking for information
on a particular dinosaur,
or for a dinosaur with
particular characteristics. Lots
of illustrations and an alphaetical search
tool make this a very useful resource.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/dinos/evolut.htm#top
Answers
to Kids' Questions about Dinosaurs: good
questions, interesting answers!
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/lacertids.html
This page from eNature.com has a menu
for listings of turtles, crocodilians,
lizards and snakes. You can click
on the type of animal that you want to
learn about and go to a list of that particular
group. Pictures can be enlarged
or sent as ecards. Amphibians (frogs
and salamanders) are also included in
a section of the listings. Teachers,
use these very specific lists to provide
search material for students learning
the general characteristics of animal
groups.
http://theturtlepages.crosswinds.net/anatomy/
Anatomy
of a Turtle: Jeff Dawson has
written a very nice description of a turtle's
anatomy. It is easy to follow and has
good diagrams. The author has pages on
the Skeletal System, the Muscular System,
the Respiratory System, The Digestive
System, the Reproductory and Excretory
Systems, the Circulatory System, and the
Nervous System. These pages provide a
starting point for discussion of adaptations
and for thinking about anatomy and how
animals work.
http://theturtlepages.crosswinds.net/evolution/
The
Turtle Pages: some description
of turtle evolution and adaptation.
http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/net12980/anatomy.html
This
page has a good labeled picture of snake
anatomy.
http://137.222.110.150/calnet/snakeskele/snakeskele.htm
Snake
Anatomy with an emphasis on the
major organs Informative and easy to read.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/000127/000127-8.html
A Twist in the Tail of Snake
evolution from Science Update tells a
little about the evolution of snakes and
their particular adaptations.
http://137.222.110.150/calnet/snakeskele/snakeskele.htm
The
snake skeleton: Pages discuss
the evolution of snakes and their skeletons,
with pages on the skull, the vertebrae,
the ribs, snake teeth, and the rattle.
The pages are followed by a short quiz.
http://sln.fi.edu/inquirer/frog.html
Jurassic
Frogs tells a little about frog
evolution and the unique adaptations that
have made frogs so successful.
http://www.geocities.com/frog_worldca/life.html
Who
Needs A Tail Anyway?
This is a simple one page description
of the stages in the life cycle of a frog.
Top of Page
Flying
Animals: Birds, Bats, Pterosaurs,
and Insects
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/flightintro.html
Vertebrate
Flight Exhibit: from the University
of California Museum of Paleontology
in Berkeley. Check this out if you plan
to have flying lifeforms on your planet!
There is information on Pterosaurs,
birds, and bats. Interesting and informative.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/pterosauria.html
Introduction
to the Pterosaurias, The Flying Reptiles:
This introductory page from the University
of California Museum of Paleontology
has excellent information about this
flying reptile that coexisted with the
dinosaurs.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/bats.html
-
University
of California Museum of Paleontology:
This is a special exhibit
about bat
flight. There is an excellent
picture of a bat skeleton.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chiroptera.html
University of California Museum
of Paleontology: This introductory
page has links more information on the lives
of bats and what is known
from the fossil record.
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Chiroptera&contgroup=Eutheria
Very
good information on bats
and the adaptations that make their way
of life possible. Don't be intimidated
by the occasional unfamiliar word. Most
of this is appropriate for the general
reader. Adult reading level suggested.
http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/insects1.html
Insects: An excellent ThinkQuest
site on forests. This part has information on insects, different animal
adaptations, and different kinds of forests. This is an excellent
resource.
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312800/index.htm
The Deep Sleep: A Thinkquest site
on Estivation, Hibernation, Torpor. and Daipause, special states that help
animals to survive environmental changes.
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/insects/evolution/evolution.html
The
Evolution of Flight in Insects.
Be sure to read this one: it talks about
the evolution of insect flight and the
relationship between flight and the insects'
compound eye. Very interesting!
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/insects/flight/flapping.html
How
Insects Fly: a short, clear,
well-illustrated page. Check it out!
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/uoc--nto012902.php
How
Birds Came to Fly: This
paper clearly explains the scientific thinking about the development of flight
in birds. There are two theories:
perhaps a fossil will be found that will
support one of them!
http://www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/courses/Tatner/biomedia/units/bird3.htm
Evolution:
This course about birds has several
pages about their evolution. The
pages are sprinkled with interesting little
details, and some of the words in the
glossary also have pictures.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/birdfr.html
Aves:
An excellent cluster of web pages dealing
with the evolution and life styles of birds.
Top of Page
Mammals
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec02/b65lec02.htm#MAMMALS
The Age of Mammals from
Biodiversity and Conservation:
A Hypertext Book by Peter J. Bryant, at
the University of California, Irvine,
is an easy to read and interesting
description of mammal evolution.
He includes sections on the effect of
contentinal drift and the forms that mammals
evolved into on different continents.
http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/evolution.html
The
Evolution of Mammals
is a very attractive and beautifully illustrated
page that tells about how mammals developed
from primitive beginnings into the very
successful number of species that we enjoy
today. Be sure to read this page
-- you will enjoy it!
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammal/Mammals.shtml
All
About Mammals, an Enchanted Learning section, has
interesting facts about mammals together
with links to many animals and information
about those animals. Accessible
and easy to understand.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/Evolution.shtml
The
Evolution of Mammals
is an interesting and informative page
with many supporting links and lots of
pictures. A good one!
Top of Page
Body Systems
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/VertebrateLungs.html
Vertebrate Lungs: An
excellent page describes the lungs of frogs, reptiles, mammals and birds.
It is very readable, easy to understand, and suitable for all ages
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/AnimalHearts.html#Three_Chambers:_the_Frog_and_Lizard
Animal Circulatory Systems:
An excellent page describing the hearts and circulatory systems of fishes,
squid, frogs and lizards and birds and mammals.
Easy to read and understand descriptions are supported by very good
illustrations.
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/
The Biology of B-Movie
Monsters: a delightful discussion of scaling, or what happens when
you change the size of an animal. Informative and fun to read, this
article would be great to share with your students in biology or mathematics.
Top of Page
Photograph adapted from a Corel CD-ROM : for viewing
only, not for downloading. More
Information.
Copyright
© 1999, 2002. Elizabeth
Anne Viau and her licensors. All
rights reserved. This material may be used
by individuals for instructional purposes
but not sold. Please inform the author if
you use it at eviau@earthlink.net.