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Ucmp: Life Has a History
This is a very good introduction to the role evolution plays in the development of biodiversity. These topics and extinction are explained with the use of colorful interactive pictures.
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Ucmp: Divisions of Precambrian Time
This site provides a brief overview of the Precambrian Era and provides a clickable chart that breaks down this era into five different time frames. A lot of info is provided on each of the five.
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Ucmp: The Paleozoic Era
An excellent overview of the Paleozoic Era. It also provides a chart where you can learn information regarding each of the time frames within the era.
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Ucmp: Introduction to the Cenozoic
A good brief review of The Cenozoic Era, which also includes links to more detailed information as well as a chart of its subdivisions.
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Ucmp: The Miocene Epoch
A brief overview and links to more detailed information about the Miocene Era, as well as an interactive table of the subdivisions of this Epoch.
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Ucmp: Web Geological Time Machine
The Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley offers an online geological time machine which allows you to catch a glimpse of ancient eras in earth's history. Click into an "Era" to learn about its stratigraphy, life forms, localities, and...
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Ucmp: Wegener (1880 1930)
Complete biographical information with links to his theories. Contains links to interactives on plate tectonics.
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Ucmp: Thomas Huxley
Biographical profile of Thomas Henry Huxley's life and work.
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Ucmp: Porifera
Detailed site, lots of pictures, and easy to understand descriptions of the phylum known as Porifera. This one is a winner!
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Ucmp: Introduction to the Carnivora
Nice informational site about the order Carnivora. The opening page lists members of the order and briefly describes relationships between humans and carnivores. It links to pages on evolution of carnivores, the ecological roles of...
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Ucmp: Understanding Geologic Time
A slideshow for teachers and students exploring Earth's geologic timeline and history. Click the buttons at left to select the teacher or student version.
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Ucmp: Cyanobacteria
General information on the cyanobacteria, the blue-green algae and the features that make them different from prokaryotic bacteria. Also included are pages that point to more specific info, like life history and fossil records.
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Ucmp: Green Algae
UC Berkeley offers good examples of green algae. Definition of green algae, habitat, various types of green algae, fossil record, ecology, and morphology.
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Ucmp: Carl Linnaeus
This University of California Museum of Paleontology offers a very detailed biography of Carl Von Linne, also known as Carl Linnaeus.
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Ucmp: Introduction to the Rotifera
Very good introduction to the biology of these little creatures. Includes good pictures and nice background information.
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Ucmp: A Relative Dating Activity
An learning activity to help students grasp the concept of relative dating and geologic time.
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Ucmp: What Killed the Dinosaurs?
This UC Berkeley site extensively covers the death of the dinosaurs. It includes history, theories, invalid hypotheses, and current arguments.
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Ucmp: Introduction to the Fungi
A wonderful place to learn all about the fungi. click on the buttons at the bottom of the page to go to sections on their life history, systematics and morphology.
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Ucmp: The Dinosauria
The Dinosauria provides the latest information about dinosaurs, including debunking myths, early dinosaur discoveries, characteristics of specific dinosaurs, life history, and discovery of dinosaur fossils.
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Ucmp: Yesterday's Trees Today's Horsetails
Berkeley offers a brief introduction to these Sphenophyta. At the bottom of the page, you can go to sections such as fossil record, ecology/history and systematics.
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Ucmp: Mammoth Discovery in San Jose
A mammoth was discovered in San Jose in 2005, leading to this well documented excavation of the site. There are detailed photos and captions of each step of the excavation, including the plastering and removal of the skeleton and its...
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Ucmp: Getting Into the Fossil Record
A learning module where students tour the fossil record to learn what fossils are, how organisms become fossils, the factors that promote fossilization, how paleontologists find fossils, and why some organisms cannot be fossilized....
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Ucmp: Evolution: Theory and Science
An introduction to Darwin's theory of evolution with hyperlinks to other topics on evolution, including a timeline of evolutionary thought.
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Ucmp: The Evolution of Flight in Birds
Evidence from the fossil record is used to support bird evolution from small carnivorous dinosaurs. In the student module, feathers, behavior, and skeletal structure are examined in an interactive lesson designed to impart a complete...