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Academy of Natural Sciences - Philadelphia museum has a Dinosaur Hall.
Age of Reptiles Mural - Peabody Museum, Yale University
American Museum of Natural History - Located in New York, this a rich resource for information on dinosaurs and paleontology. There is a
Fossil Halls page. Virtual exhibitions include
Gobi: Dinosaurs in the Desert,
Personalities in Paleontology,
Amber: Window to the Past,
Fighting Dinosaurs: New Discoveries from Mongolia and First Dinosaur Embryos Found with Fossilized Skin.
Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates - Currently the database covers the years 1509-1968 and 1981-1993, and has approximately 131,190 references. Provided by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP).
BUBL Information Service - Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glascow, Scotland, has a subject directory for Palaeontology.
College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum - Price
Curse of T.rex - Nova
The Deccan Traps Volcanism-Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory - Dewey M. McLean, Professor Emeritus of Geology in the Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Dino Russ's Lair - Directory of links to dinosaur and vertebrate paleontology information collected by Russell J. Jacobson, Geoscience Education and Outreach Unite at the Illinois State Geological Survey.
Dinosaur State Park - Rocky Hill, Connecticut
Dinosauria On-Line - Maintained by Jeff Poling, an amateur paleontologist in Dublin, Ohio
Dinosaurs in the Dunes - Fossil hunting in the Gobi Desert; Discovery Online & the American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs of the East Coast - Adapted from the book written by David B. Weishampel and Luther O. Young, Johns Hopkins Magazine, June 1996.
Discovery Channel Guide: Dinosaurs
End of the World: More Proof of the Dinosaurs' Demise - Frontiers, October, 1997 (electronic newsletter of the National Science Foundation)
Field Museum of Natural History - With information on Sue, the "world's most complete and biggest fossil Tyrannosaurus rex."
Geology of the Wessex Coast - Ian West, Department of Geology, University of Southampton, UK
George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
Hadrosaurus - Found in 1858 in Haddonfield, New Jersey
International Organisation of Palaeobotany - Site includes Plant Fossil Record database which includes descriptions and occurrences of many thousands of extinct plants
Learning from the Fossil Record - "Manual for a workshop for K-16 earth science instructors sponsored by the Paleontological Society on October 27, 1996 at the annual Geological Society of America meeting in Denver, Colorado."
Library of Congress Online Catalog
Museum of Paleontology - University of California, Berkeley
National Geographic Online - Online exhibitions include Dinosaurs of the Sahara and Dinosaur Eggs
Museum of the Rockies - Bozeman, Montana.
National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution. Has a Department of Paleobiology.
Natural History Museum - London museum has a Palaeontology Department.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - Albuquerque museum has an online exhibit on Dinosaurs in New Mexico
New York Times: Paleontology
PaleoNet Pages - "System of listservers, www pages, and ftp sites designed to enhance electronic communication among paleontologists."
Paleontological Research Institution - Ithaca, N.Y.
Paleontology and Fossils Resources - Jack D. Mount, Science Reference Librarian, Science-Engineering Library, University of Arizona
Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969 - Exhibition of original printed materials related to the history of dinosaur discovery; Linda Hall Library, Kansas City.
Rex Files - New Scientist Planet Science
Royal Tyrrell Museum - Alberta, Canada.
Science News
ScienceDaily Magazine
New Scientist
EurekaAlert!
National Geographic News - There is a Archaeology and Paleontolgy News section.
National Science Foundation News
New York Times Science
Science News Online
Scientific American
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology - Chicago
Vertebrate Paleontology Databases - Florida Museum of Natural History; searchable databases
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