BIOLOGY
MEDICINE
&
VETINARY |
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Institute of
Biological Engineering
www.ibeweb.org |
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| This is an interesting website dedicated
to the relatively new discipline of Biological Engineering which brings together
a variety of subjects such as biological sciences, engineering sciences,
mathematics and computational sciences. The IBE is an organisation set up
to encourage and promote research in Biological Engineering through its publications,
meetings and distribution of information and services. The website provides
a forum which provides important links and encourages interdisciplinary research. |
Institute of
Biology
www.iob.org |
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| The Institute of Biology is the professional
body for UK biologists and is frequently consulted on biological issues by
the government. It also publishes various journals, books and information
sheets, organising meetings and symposia and has over 70 affiliated societies.
The 'Biologist' is the flagship journal of the IOB and here on the website
you can find details of its most recent articles as well as announcements
of forthcoming conferences and information on recent advances in the field. |
BBC Health
www.bbc.co.uk/health |
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| This is the official BBC Health site
- the site which addresses topical health issues in relationship to its T.V.
programs. Find out for example from EastEnders' Dr Fonseca whether Mark Fowler
was doing the right thing in not taking his anti-HIV medication. Look up
the BBC's health guide to a whole host of subjects such as allergies, parenting,
epilepsy, and back pain. You can also address your own questions to the resident
BBC doctor Trisha MacNair. |
Eutopia
eutopia.unn.ac.uk:8080 |
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| Eutopia is a major Web server offering
access to information in several different areas including Health. The Health
News section supplies daily updated news feeds from the BBC on such subjects
as decoding DNA, the spread of AIDS in Africa and the effect of the Millennium
dome on our mental health. There are also links to new health websites such
as NHS Direct and research information from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |
Medical Research
Council
www.mrc.ac.uk/who.html |
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| The MRC is an organisation devoted to
promoting research into all areas of medical and related science through
its research establishments, and grants. Here on the website are the details
of research units and establishments which the MRC has set up to boost research
in specific subject areas. Many of these research units are home to some
of the UK's best biomedical scientists and here on the website, a forum has
been created to encourage interdisciplinary projects. |
NetVet
netvet.wustl.edu |
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| This website is dedicated to all things
veterinary and includes a whole host of resources, most significantly a huge
virtual library of veterinary medicine. Here you can find detailed up to
date links to veterinary publications, organisations and colleges as well
as biological and physical information on pets of all kinds. You can also
chat directly about your pet problems on the newsgroups and Q & A services
listed here. |
The Graduate
School of Life Sciences Home Page
www.gradbiol.ed.ac.uk |
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| This is Edinburgh University's website
for information on postgraduate studies in the faculties of Biological Sciences,
Science and Engineering, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Edinburgh University
is a leading postgraduate teaching and research centre particularly renowned
for its teaching in the life sciences. Here you will find the details of
a huge number of research specialities and PhD programs available as well
as a whole network of links to other Life Science departments in Universities
all over Europe. |
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| DISCOVERY |
Discovery Channel
Online
www.discovery.com |
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| The Discovery Channel Online is the
ultimate Web guide to all things science, nature, technology, history, adventure
and exploration. Here you will find up-to-the-minute science news, real-time
international expeditions and original in-depth feature editorials as well
as the ability to search a massive archive of information on every subject
from archaeology to space travel. You can also view a whole selection of
live images form around the world such as Washington monument, Times Square
and Big Ben. |
ArchNet
archnet.uconn.edu/ |
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| Archnet is a catalogued archive of archeological
resources available on the internet. References have been divided up by geographic
region and by subject area. There are links to academic institutions, journals,
laboratories, societies, and organisations throughout the world. Also, you'll
find the resulting data from specific excavations and downloadable analysis
software of all kinds from geographical mapping to statistical analysis.
There's also an archeological news service and another section devoted to
Q & A. |
Centre for Mars
Exploration
cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov |
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| CMEX is the part of NASA's website which
is completely devoted to Mars. It is packed full of information on the history
of the planet, previous missions, analysis tools and Mars news. There's a
rotating Mars animation, a collection of surface images, and an archive of
maps. Another section provides educational material for teachers including
suggested projects for kids, and the chance to chat with NASA experts as
well as view videos live from Mars. |
Travelbag Adventures
www.travelbag-adventures.co.uk |
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| This is a holiday company specialising
in small group adventure breaks to destinations all over the world including
Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and South East Asia. The website is
jam packed full of detailed trip dossiers downloadable in Acrobat format,
as well as some fantastic photographs of holiday destinations. There's also
a monthly newsletter documenting such far-flung delights as the Sonepor elephant
fair, Tibetan monasteries, and the game reserves of Tanzania. |
Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
www.llnl.gov |
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| This is the website of one of the major
US national laboratories set up under the wing of the Department of Energy
and operated by the University of California. Its aim is to develop research
and apply science and technology with a focus on global security, global
ecology and bioscience. Here you'll find the details of scientific research
in a huge number of areas such as Engineering, Microtechnology, Materials
Science, and Lasers and Optics. |
Ski Web
www.skiclub.co.uk/cogs/Welcome |
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| Ski Web is brought to you by the Ski
Club of Great Britain and is a complete information guide on skiing around
the world giving details of everything from holiday prices to weather reports
to skiing fact sheets for beginners. There's also a daily updated news service
with details of bargain flights, news of international skiing competitions
and editorial features on such subjects as learning to Telemark, and the
Blind British Paralympian skier. |
Society for
Scientific Exploration
www.scientificexploration.org |
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| The Society for Scientific Exploration
promotes unconventional lines of scientific enquiry, providing a forum for
the 'presentation, scrutiny and criticism of scientific research in subjects
outside the established disciplines of mainstream science.' Such research
is available here for your perusal including papers with such titles as The
Nature of Time, The Strange Properties of Psychokinesis and Phobias in Children
who claim to Remember Past Lives. Its very academic, its weird, and its well
worth checking out. |
Yachting World
www.yachting-world.com |
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| This is the ultimate yachting website
with daily news feeds from yachting races around the world, as well as editorial
features on boat building technology. There's also a Yachting World picture
library at your disposal thanks to 15 years of hard work from the magazine's
photographer Malcolm White. Another section on extreme sailing gives news
of daredevil feats, tales of endurance and high speed unhandicapped sailing
while a more practical part of the site gives you information on boats and
equipment. |
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ENVIRON
-MENTAL |
Friends of the
Earth
www.foe.org |
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| Friends of the Earth is a large international
organisation well-known in the mainstream press for its battles with governments
and industry over environmental issues. The website is represented separately
in the UK under the URL www.foe.co.uk and here you'll find information on
the organisation's local and national campaigns as well as a diverse list
of available publications on all kinds of environmental issues. The international
site is vast, and brimming with information on international campaigns, policy
issues and community health programmes. |
Envirolink
www.envirolink.org |
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| Envirolink describes itself as an 'online
environmental community'. It attempts to unite hundreds of organisations
and volunteers throughout the world and provide them with information and
services such as website hosting, automated mailing lists, bulletin boards
and chat rooms. As well as containing a massive amount of practical information
on how you can help the environment, there is also a page devoted to the
essays, poetry, interviews and portfolios of environmentalist artists from
around the world. |
European Environmental
Law
www.eel.nl |
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| The European Environmental Law site is an essential source
of information on legal rulings concerning all environmental issues. Here
you'll find the definitive legislation and governmental dossiers on such
issues as air and water quality, plant protection, and nuclear safety as
well as a huge database available for downloading listing recent case law.
Many of the larger documents are available in pdf format and many are available
in other European languages. |
PlanetArk
www.planetark.org/index.cfm |
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| PlanetArk is Reuter's news service dedicated
to environmental issues. There are daily environmental news feeds and pictures
as well a searchable archive. This site also hosts ABC's Newsradio world
environment news which provides a weekly review of major stories as well
as regular interviews with some of the world's leading environmentalists.
There's another page full of downloadable software for kids teaching them
how they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment. |
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org |
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| The best aspect of the Greenpeace website
is it the clearly written explanations of a large number of environmental
issues. If you're unsure about such issues as how your fridge can harm the
environment, how exactly the greenhouse effect works or what on earth El
Nino is, then look no further than this site. ..And you get more than just
explanations. There are the results of long term scientific studies, databases
of figures showing climate changes and other scientific reports downloadable
in pdf format. |
KIDS F.A.C.E.
www.kidsface.org |
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| KIDS F.A.C.E. stands for Kids For a
Clean Environment, an organisation set up by a 9 year old girl Melissa Poe
in Nashville Tenessee as a club to help children learn about the environment
and find out about nature-friendly community projects they can set up themselves.
The club is now a huge youth organisation sponsored by Wall-Mart with a membership
of 300,000. It promotes environmentally sound projects like recyclying and
planting trees. |
National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com |
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| This has to be one of the most comprehensive
environmental websites. Instead of concentrating only on obvious 'green'
issues such as global warming and toxic waste here you'll find research on
subjects as diverse as population movements, sea exploration, genetic mutations,
and underground railways. There is of course an excellent library of photographs,
not to mention a fantastic interactive map-making machine, and a superb kids
section which is both educational and to be quite honest very silly too. |
The Environment
News Service
ens.lycos.com |
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| The Lycos environmental news service
is one of the most established information services on the net, supplying
daily environmental news feeds on a diverse range of subjects. As well as
the international news headlines relating to environmental issues, there
is also an environment events calendar as well as a page devoted to press
releases and a section on Ecotravel. A number of active message boards provide
ongoing discussions of environmental issues such as environmental activism,
animal rights, the 'greenhouse' effect, and mass extinctions. |
World Wildlife
Fund
wwf.org |
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| This has to be one of the biggest and
most comprehensive wildlife websites on the internet. Here you can find the
details of many of the WWF's projects including efforts to save endangered
species, to preserve wild places and to address global threats. There's an
excellent News Room section packed full of articles on worldwide climate
change, oceans and forests and advances in environmental science. There's
also a great multimedia archive complete with Webcasts, video and photographs. |
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| HERITAGE |
24-Hour Museum
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk |
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| If you want to know what's happening
at museums, galleries and historic buildings around the UK then the 24-hour
Museum is the best starting point. The Magazines section of the site brings
you all the news on upcoming events and exhibitions; alternatively you can
use the Museum Finder service to search for detailed information on events
in your local area. The Trails area of the site is a great source of inspiration
if you're planning a day out in the UK. |
The Millennium
Experience
www.dome2000.co.uk |
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| Millennium eve might be long past but the Dome remains
and it's here for at least a year. The Millennium Experience site attempts
to entice you in with an online preview of the kind of attractions you'll
see in this bizarre structure. All the major zones are covered including
the Body Zone. If you're tempted by the photos and the online virtual tour
then you can then go ahead and order Dome tickets direct from the site. Even
if you decide not to visit the Dome you can still buy millennium-themed goodies
from the online store. |
Art Guide
www.artguide.org |
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| Opening with the Picasso quote, "The
purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls," this outstanding
database gives you as many opportunities as possible to do a bit of soul-scrubbing.
Organising its listings by gallery (650 in all), by where individual artists
are exhibited (1,900 of 'em) and by specific exhibitions, even the most insignificant
event will be hard pushed to slip through the net. More unusual categories
like Top 10, Fun For Kids and Glorious Eccentrics are also thrown into the
mix. |
Museums and
Galleries Month
www.may2000.org.uk |
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| The 1st May to 4th June 2000 is Museum
and Galleries month - a celebration of what's best in museums and galleries
around the UK. There are plenty of special events planned for this month
and you'll find details of them all on this website, just visit the Events
Diary to get the latest information. Events, exhibitions, workshops, tours
and talks are all being planned in an attempt to encourage new visitors into
museums. |
The BBC Experience
www.bbc.co.uk/experience |
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| The BBC Experience, an interactive exhibition
devoted to the 75-year history of the BBC, is one of the most popular tourist
haunts in London. This site gives you a real taste of what you can expect
to see if you cough up for a ticket. You're given a virtual tour of the various
exhibits in the Experience and they include the chance to take part in a
radio play, the opportunity to present the weather and you can even select
your own personal Desert Island Discs. The site is also home to audio clips
from classic BBC comedies and an online souvenir shop. |
English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk |
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| There's always plenty going on at the
numerous English Heritage properties scattered around the UK and this site
is the first with the latest news on what's happening and where. It's great
if you're looking for ideas on places to visit for a day out - just check
out the Events section of the site. You'll also find background information
on the properties and maps so you can find them easily. |
National Museums
& Galleries of Merseyside
www.nmgm.org.uk |
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| Find out about the latest exhibitions
and events in Merseyside at this restrained and stylish website. The site
lets you know what's happening in eight major museums and galleries in the
area covering everything from an event celebrating the art of the Harley-Davidson
motorcycle through to an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. The venues
covered include Liverpool art galleries and more unusual museums such as
the H&M Customs & Excise museum and the Maritime Museum. With such
a wide selection of museums covered you can guarantee there's always something
going on in the Merseyside area. |
Virgin Net -
Days Out
www.virgin.net/daysout/finder |
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| Restricted to hip and happening events
in this country, Richard Branson's entertainments website contains a highly
useful search engine for rooting out something to do on an empty weekend.
Specify whether you want to search by area, the type of attraction or the
name of an actual event and it's almost certain to come up with something.
The actual entries are clearly set out, summarising what exactly is going
on and supplying all-important links, if the venue has a website. |
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| PHYSICS |
CLRC Engineering
Department
www.eng.rl.ac.uk |
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| The CLRC is one of Europe's largest
multidisciplinary research organisations supporting scientists and engineers
worldwide. The Engineering department based on several sites in the UK designs
and builds the latest technology hardware with its division of applied science
specialising in six areas including Advanced Engineering Analysis, Energy
Research, Superconductivity and Cryogenics. Here you can find the details
of projects carried out in each of these areas. |
National Science
Foundation
www.nsf.gov |
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| The National Science Foundation is an
independent US government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering
through large investment programs in science and engineering. Information
about NSF science programs is compiled every year and placed on the website
through the Online Document System. The program research areas include subjects
such as Computer and Information Sciences, Engineering, Geosciences, Polar
Research, and Maths and Physical Sciences. Each of these is searchable on
the site. |
Cranfield University
www.cranfield.ac.uk |
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| Cranfield is one of the UK's leading
institutions for industrial research specialising particularly in Aeronautics,
BioScience, Mechanical Engineering, and Agriculture. A vast amount of industry
sponsorship is injected each year into each of these departments and here
on the website there is a huge amount of information on the recent research
carried out within each faculty. There are also a huge number of links to
college publications, associations and services. |
Nonlinear Science
Today
www.springer-ny.com/nst |
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| This international scientific journal
aims to bring together different areas of science, mathematics and varied
applied disciplines. The website provides a focus for news and views resulting
from recent research and an outlet for discussion of more speculative ideas
and opinions. The website not only acts as a forum for scientific articles,
but also a place for peer review, feature articles and book reviews, making
the subject matter more accessible than many other sites. |
Elsevier Science
www.elsevier.com |
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| Elsevier Science is a publishing company
specialising in scientific journals - in fact it is responsible for the publication
of almost 1,200 English-language journals. Here on the website, researchers
and readers are linked together with the latest scientific research. There's
a News section, and Table of Contents listing for each of the Elsevier journals
as well as a sophisticated Search engine which allows accurate and fast retrieval
of specific articles. |
Institute of
Physics
www.iop.org |
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| This is the website of the Institute
of Physics - a professional body which promotes the advancement of both pure
and applied physics. The IOP is also a publisher of journals, books and magazines
in physics and all 40 of its journals are available here online. There are
also a whole host of online services including a Science for Business section,
an online bookstore, and a service called PhysicsWeb offering a global news
and information service. |
IUPAC
www.iupac.org |
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| This is the website of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry a body which promotes the advancement
of the chemical sciences through its magazine Chemistry International. Here
there are links to some of the society's other publications such as the journal
Pure and Applied Chemistry which contains recommendations as well as lectures
from symposia and the Macromolecular Symposia which presents contributions
in the field of macromolecular chemistry and physics. |
Nuclear Technology
Publishing
www.ntp.org.uk/index.html |
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| This website contains details of the
journals published by NTP, all of which are radiation protection orientated.
Here there are such journals as the International Journal of Radioactive
Materials Transport and the Radiation Protected Dosimetry which can be searched
or browsed by their Abstracts and Contents listings. The website includes
details of all past publications and future planned publications and covers
journals, books, monographs and conference proceedings. |
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NATURAL
HISTORY |
Carnegie Museum
of Natural History
Discovery Room Online
www.clpgh.org/cmnh/discovery/index.html |
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| This is such a fun site. There are not
boring articles on what dinosaurs are, instead all the information is contained
within various quizzes. So you have to sort the dinosaurs from the imposters,
put the right head on the dinosaur bones and unscramble the dinosaur bones
to make up a complete skeleton. Along the way you learn loads about the various
dinosaurs, but you will be so busy enjoying yourself that you do not notice
the learning bit. |
Dinorama
www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/frame.html |
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| Dinorama is not a comprehensive guide
to all things dinosaur related, but it does have some fascinating and very
odd facts. Like did you know that it is very rare to find a dinosaur skull,
because they wear down faster than any other part of the skeleton. There
are also a few very useful links to other, more detailed articles, such as
one on Sue, the largest and most complete T-Rex ever found, who last walked
the earth 67 million years ago. |
Natural History
Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk |
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| The Natural History Museum is home to
no end of dinosaur bones, and it has some good information on that at its
site. In the Dinosaur Data Files there is a great run-down on all dinosaurs,
how tall they were, when they lived, what they ate and where they lived,
although there are no colour pictures. Elsewhere on the site there is more
to look at. There is a section on recreating dinosaurs, looking at whether
it is possible to create a real live Jurassic Park from dinosaur DNA. |
Walking with
Dinosaurs
www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs |
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| Just like the TV programme, this site
is packed with information. You can get summaries of the six main programmes
in the series, but you can also choose to look at the dinosaurs themselves
in more detail. All of the featured dinosaurs have video clips that you can
download to see how they moved, and there is plenty of information available
on each species. You can even dig deeper with in-depth articles written by
dino experts. And when you have done all that you can go to the games section. |
Dinosaur Eggs
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/dinoeggs/intro.html |
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| Dinosaur eggs tell us a great deal about
how dinosaurs lived, but few have revealed as many secrets as an egg found
in China which actually contained the bones of a baby theropod. This site
tells the story of that discovery and the discovery of other dinosaur eggs
and what they can tell us about the dinosaurs that laid them. It also tells
you how scientists tease the bones out of the egg and how the bones can be
modelled to work out what kind of dinosaur they would have become. |
Zoom Dinosaurs
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/Dinotopics.html |
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| This site has almost everything you
could need to get started on learning about dinosaurs. It starts with the
basics - what is a dinosaur? - and goes on to cover what kinds of dinosaurs
there were, when they lived, how dinosaurs are classified and just about
everything else you would want to know. You can even ask a question of an
expert if your question is not answered anywhere else on the site. |
Discovering Dinosaurs
dinosaurs.eb.com/dinosaurs/index2.html |
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| Back in the early 19th century the first
dinosaur bones came to light. Scientists then had very little evidence to
work with to try to imagine the kind of world these creatures came from.
The Discovering Dinosaurs site from Encyclopedia Britannica, looks at the
changing ideas about dinosaurs, and where they came from. It takes a look
at four main areas of contention: environment, anatomy, physiology and behaviour
and covers all kinds of arguments, including the most hotly debated of all:
what killed the dinosaurs? |
Giganotosaurus.com
www.dinodon.com/gig_index.html |
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| This site is based on the findings of
a dig in Argentina, where a family of three Giganotosaurus was found together.
The largest of these enormous mammals is a staggering 10 metres long. The
sites shows how the dinosaur was dug up, casts taken of all the bones and
then remade and assembled back in the US. You should also have a look at
the sister site, www.dinodon.com, which is full of loads more dinosaur facts
and news on the latest digs. |
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WILD LIFE |
Shetland Wildlife
Tours
www.users.zetnet.co.uk/swt |
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| The Shetland Islands are internationally
renowned for their amazing wildlife, and here on this website you are given
a taste of just what each season on Shetland has to offer. There are some
great pictures of puffins, whales, dolphins, and seals as well as descriptions
of their habitat and advice on when it is best to visit them. This site also
offers you a tour of Shetland's wildlife - an award-winning holiday service
given by knowledgeable wildlife enthusiasts. |
Rainforest Australia
rainforest-australia.com |
|
| At first, this site looks like an advert
for a hotel in Queensland, Australia with a few wildlife pictures on the
side, but in fact its the other way around. This site is a massive archive
containing 825 files, photos, and text on the Australian Tropical Rainforest.
It is jam packed full of excellent photographs of plants, birds and animals
along with explanations of their habitat, history and development. Check
out the Green Possums, LongNosed Bandicots and the Red Legged Pademelons. |
Wildlife Ecology
Software Server
nhsbig.inhs.uiuc.edu |
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| This site acts as a clearinghouse for
ecology-related software. In other words any software submitted for inclusion
here is virus scanned, tested and deemed suitable for inclusion. Most of
the software available for downloading is highly academic and chosen for
its contribution to habitat analysis, general population dynamics, survival,
statistical analysis or simulation. There are also links available to recent
research in each of these fields as well as other academic ecology software
sites. |
Texas Parks
and Wildlife
www.tpwd.state.tx.us |
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| Its wild! Its American! Its essential
news about Texas Parks. Check out the special snow goose season, cycling
the Texas Alps and how the Warden Training Academy has just graduated a new
team of cadets. If you can't get out of the house, live 'Webcasts' will keep
you involved chatting with the park rangers, and environmentalists or even
taking you on a virtual roam with Sherlock Bones finding out how dinosaurs
once wandered around Texas. The mind boggles... |
The Natural
History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk |
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| Here's a great website for learning
about Wildlife in all shapes and sizes. At the NHM there's a gallery devoted
to practically everything imaginable including insects, dinosaurs, mammals,
primates, human biology, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and plants. There
are also more conceptual galleries focusing on the theory of evolution, the
development of the planet earth, and subjects such as mineralogy, and palaeontology.
There's also a wildlife garden complete with bluebell woods, ox-eye daisies
and cowslips. |
Wildlife Conservation
Society
www.wcs.org |
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| The WCS was set up at New York City's
Bronx zoo in 1895 and has since developed into a multinational organisation
promoting field conservation projects in 52 countries throughout the world
and supporting wildlife protection programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America
and North America. This tastefully designed website contains the details
of many of the society's projects including sections on biological science,
zoos and aquariums, news from the wcs magazine and a great kids section. |
Yellowstone Net
www.yellowstone.net |
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| This is the Yellowstone national park
website full of information, photographs and videos of its wildlife. There's
a Yellowstone Net Newspaper, updated daily with such articles as 'Bighorn
Sheep killed by lightning' and 'Bison Update'. There's also a section of
brilliant photographs of elks, grizzly bears, moose and wolves as well as
some good practical information like maps of the various different areas
of the park, weather forecasts, and details of lodgings. |
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