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http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo Paleontology at the U.S. Geological Survey.
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http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/glossary.shtml Terms of paleontology defined at this site.
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http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/groups.shtml Fossil Groups Home page for major fossil groups surveyed.
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http://www.palaeobotany.org/ Plant Fossil Record database includes descriptions and occurrences of many thousands of extinct plants and for the first time modern genera with fossil species are included in the description database where names, places and ages can be searched and the occurrences are instantly plotted on a palaeogeographic maps to determine patterns of migration and evolution through geological time.
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http://www.nsf.gov/nstw_questions/pale/start.htm Common questions answered about dinosaurs like: "Were there people alive during the age of the dinosaurs?", "Why are the dinosaurs extinct?", "Is the Tyrannosaurus rexs vision really based on motion?".
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http://www.nm.blm.gov/www/features/blm_paleo/blm_paleo.html Bureau of Land Management descriptive report of the discovery of a dinosaur specimen and preparation for diagnosis and interpretation.
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http://www.geo.nsf.gov/ear/programs/gepage.html The NSF Geology and Paleontology home page was created to provide information and support to the Geology and Paleontology research community.
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http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/databases/vp/introduction .htm The University of Florida main collection contains 150,000 catalogued specimens, including 130,000 available on Vertebrate Paleontology Databases.
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http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/eduinfo.shtml Explore a directory of paleontology resources provided by the US Geological Survey from an ever growing number of resources available from the USGS and elsewhere for teachers, students, scientists, and others who are interested in paleontology and related earth and biological science disciplines.
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http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/geology/paleo/ Program with on-line newsletter designed to the catalog the diversity of the fossil record in the National Park System such as petrified leaves, wood, pollen, shells, bones, teeth, eggshells, tracks, borrows, and coprolites which have been found in more than 145 National Park System units.
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ Fossil museum on the University of California at Berkeley campus provides education and public outreach as well as exhibits with fun images and collections on-line and information on the history of life.
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http://www.geol.vt.edu/paleo/GbRG.html Group Virginia Techs geobiology research group also has information on paleontology with current research projects: The Fossil Record of Predation, The History of the Colorado Delta, Holocene Brachiopods, Miocene Mollusks, Time-averaging in Marine Fossil Record, Permian Fossil Record, Light Isotopes in Phosphatic Fossils, Morphometrics and Recent Freshwater Mussles.
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