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Ucmp: Introduction to Artiodactyla
This site explores the artiodactyla, and includes a focus on fossil records, life history and ecology, systematics, and morphology.
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Ucmp: Learning From the Fossil Record
Fossils provide scientists with clues about Earth's past. This site from the University of California's Museum of Paleontology is great for exploring lots of information on fossils.
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Ucmp: Photosynthetic Pigments
The University of California provides an overview of photosynthetic pigments includes definition, importance in photosynthesis, and description of 3 basic classes of pigments.
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Ucmp: Name a Dinosaur Activity
This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.
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Ucmp: The Case of the Irish Elk
This site provides a general overview of the extinct deer species, the Irish Elk.
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Ucmp: Paleoecology
This engaging presentation gives examples of insights gained throught the science of paleoecology. Examples are provided that show how paleoecologists use fossils to determine past climates, ecosystem changes and interactions between...
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Ucmp: Dino Facts a Unit on Dinosaur Behavior
For this unit, learners look at what is known about three dinosaurs - Maiasaura, Troodon and Orodromeus - and learn how paleontologists develop hypotheses about their behavior.
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Ucmp: Adventures at Dry Creek
For this lesson, students embark on an adventure to find out what life was like in Montana 60-70 million years ago. Students "join" a research lab to collect fossils from Montana and analyze them to find direct and indirect evidence of...
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Ucmp: Understanding Science: Tennis Shoe Detectives
A instructional activity where students take copies of their shoe prints, then create a story and illustrate it with pictures showing trails of footprints. Presented are samples of such trails that can be used to stimulate class...
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Ucmp: Understanding Science: Dogs and Turnips
A simple lesson where each group of students turns over word cards creating sentences from them. As the student turns over more cards, the group modifies the meaning of the sentence, leading them to discuss how scientists change their...
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Ucmp: Mystery Fossils
Each month a new mystery fossil is presented for students to try to identify, giving them a taste of what paleontologists are confronted with in their work.
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Ucmp: Introduction to the Eukaryota
The huge diversity of the Eukaryota is described, including what has been preserved in fossils. The section, "More on Morphology", explains the biology of eukaryote cells in detail.
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Ucmp: Dinoflagellates
The University of California provides background material on dinoflagellates which exhibit bioluminescence. Site includes information on their fossil record, ecology, and structure.
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Ucmp: Phylogenetic Systematics: Evolutionary Trees
This page provides an introduction to phylogenetic systematics, the way that biologists reconstruct the pattern of events that have led to the distribution and diversity of life. A tutorial "journey" into the Introduction, Methodology,...
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Ucmp: Entrance to the Vertebrate Flight Exhibit
This University of California Berkeley page provides information on the evolution of vertebrate flight and includes links to the following topics: Introduction to Flight, The Physics of Flight, Gliders and Parachuters, The Evolution of...
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Ucmp: A Virtual Exploration of the Beach
This site focuses on the following questions:1. What are the divisions of a beach?2. How does energy vary along the beach area?3. How does grain size vary along the beach in response to wave energy?
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Ucmp: Introduction to Ctenophora
This is an advanced level review of the biology of these organisms. The opening photographs are worth seeing!
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Ucmp: Discovery of Sulawesi Coelacanths
A new location for this 'living fossil' is documented at the University of California. Good general information on the biology and significance of coelacanths.
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Ucmp: What Is a Sabertooth?
A good review of the natural history of the extinct species, the Sabertooth. Includes pictures of bones of this animal.
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Ucmp: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?
A great essay that illustrates how science is done as well as the relationship between dinosaurs and modern birds. Includes a picture to illustrate this concept, and contains many links to related sites.
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Ucmp: The Tyrant Lizards: The Tyrannosauridae
This site from the University of California provides basic information on T. rex with links to related material great for a quick introduction.
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Ucmp: Inferring the Possible Speed of Dinosaurs
An essay detailing the evidence used to determine how quickly dinosaurs moved. Includes pictures of fossilized dinosaur tracks.
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Ucmp: Dinosaurs, Movies, & Reality
A very good review of how "movie science" can present an inaccurate or incomplete picture of actual scientific knowledge and methods.
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Ucmp: Learning About Vendian Animals
UC Berkeley offers very nice photos and descriptions of what is known about fossils of animals from this era.