Bagheera
Bagheera: Endangered Species
Bagheera provides an education site devoted to educating people about vanishing and extinct animals and their impact on the environment.
Read Works
Read Works: The Ivory Billed Woodpecker Returns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that was once perceived to be extinct due to excessive logging. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...
BBC
Bbc Nature: Ornithopod Dinosaurs
With some of the most advanced chewing apparatus ever developed by a reptile, ornithopod dinosaurs became a most successful group of herbivorous dinosaurs. They rapidly became a prominent feature on North America's Cretaceous landscape,...
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: The Geological Time Scale
What was Australia like during prehistoric times? Follow through history from 110 million years ago until the present and discover the different mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Being Darwin's Finches
In this biology activity, students will be investigating evolution by "competing" for food like Darwin's finches might have competed. Each student group is given a different type of "beak" to work with and there are also different kinds...
Chicago Zoological Society
Chicago Zoological Society: Zoo Explorer: Micronesian Kingfisher
Get acquainted with the Micronesian kingfisher by browsing this animal guide from the Brookfield Zoo. Highlights includes quick facts, a photo, and details on its appearance, breeding, communication, and habitat. Discover why these...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom Dinosaurs
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic,...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Eskimo Curlew
The Eskimo curlew, which migrated between the Northwest Territories and Argentina is believed to be extinct, although there are occasional reports of possible sightings. The reasons for its decline and a drawing of one can be found here.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Moas
The Canadian Museum of Nature provides a concise introduction to the moas. Learn about these now extinct large flightless birds that used to call New Zealand home.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Imperial Amazon
Imperial Amazons are gorgeous birds found only in Dominica in the Lesser Antilles. They were brought back from near extinction and live in protected rainforest parks. You will find some information about the Imperial Amazon here and a...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Crested Ibis
The crested ibis was barely saved from extinction in Asia after the last seven known to be alive were put into a protective sanctuary in China. The population has increased and many have been released back into the wild but it is still...
Read Works
Read Works: Unearthing Pterosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage from the American Museum of Natural History is about the discovery and study of bones from Pterosaurs, extinct flying reptiles that are not exactly dinosaurs or birds. A question set, a...
University of California
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.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Fossil Field Guide: Flightless Auk
A look at what fossil evidence reveals about the life and ecological interactions of the flightless auk.