Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
Explore extensive information about a variety of Australian dinosaurs, as well as Chinese ones. The evolution of birds from dinosaurs is also described. This online exhibit offers images and facts about dinosaurs, their relatives and...
Museums Victoria
Museum Victoria: 600 Million Years: Victoria Evolves
600 Million Years is a permanent exhibition at the Melbourne Museum that examines how Australia evolved through the geological ages, and the dinosaurs and other prehistoric life that lived in the Victoria area in the distant past. The...
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons
A database with detailed fact sheets for seventeen dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, including illustrations, a map, a timeline, physical characteristics, etc.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Paleontology
Snapshot reference on paleontology explains how the fossil record drives this area of science.
Other
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: The Archelon
The Archelon was the largest sea turtle ever to exist. The best specimen found, on display in Vienna, would have been fifteen feet, or four and a half meters, long when alive, and likely weighed two and a quarter tons, or 2,200...
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet the Didelphodon
Looking much like today's opossum, the prehistoric Didelphodon was one of the largest mammals 65 million years ago. Learn what the fossils of this animal tell us about its diet and habitat.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sabre Toothed Tiger (Smilodon Populator)
Provides images and a fact card about the sabre-toothed tiger, a prehistoric animal. Discusses where they lived, when and how they likely became extinct, what we know about its physical characteristics, diet, and reproduction.
BBC
Bbc: Science and Nature: Prehistoric Life: Sea Monsters Adventure Game
Learn about prehistoric sea creatures by playing this entertaining online game. A variety of skills are needed as you move through geologic time and encounter different sea creatures.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Varanus (Megalania) Priscus
Varanus priscus was a prehistoric lizard that lived in Australia in the Pleistocene Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Inostrancevia Alexandri
Inostrancevia alexandri was a prehistoric animal with mammal-like characteristics that lived in the Permian Period and before the dinosaurs. Some information and pictures can be found here.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Diprotodon Optatum
Diprotodon optatum was a prehistoric marsupial from Australia that lived during the Pleistocene Period. The wombat and the koala are descendants. Some information and pictures can be found here.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact Files: Didelphodon
Read about the Didelphodon, a marsupial from the Mesozoic era and Cretaceous period. Learn what fossils have taught us about their habitat, diet, and senses, and view an animated image showing how this mammal may have moved.
Other
Kidcyber: Some Australian Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Reptiles
Some of the dinosaurs that dwelt in Australia, like Muttaburrasaurus and Leaellynasaura, are described here. The site also has a dinosaur timeline, an ABC of prehistoric reptiles, information about the different periods in which...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaurs: Archaeopteryx Lithographica
Is it a feathered dinosaur, or the ancestor of birds? Find out about the Archaeopteryx lithographica whose fossil remains show feathers similar to that of a bird, and whose skeleton resembles that of a dinosaur.
Curated OER
Prehistoric Planet: Before the Dinosaurs: The Coal Age Monsters
TheDiploceraspis, a prehistoric animal that lived before tthe dinosaurs.