Web Links

17. Dinosaurs and mammals

Read more about dinosaurs at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html
http://dinobase.gly.bris.ac.uk
http://www.dinosauria.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs/

Reads about birds at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds

and fossil birds at:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/birdfr.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_birds

There are huge numbers of web sites about mammals. Some of the best are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mammal.html
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mammalia.html
http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/msw/

You can read about Australia’s amazing fossil and living mammals at:
http://www.austmus.gov.au/mammals/fossil/index.htm

You can find good overviews of human evolution at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Paleoanthropology.html
http://www.becominghuman.org
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humanevolution
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human

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Read more about Greg Erickson’s work at:
http://bio.fsu.edu/~gerick/dinogrowth.htm

and read about Martin Sander’s work and see Martin sectioning sauropod bones at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4532608.stm

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Read more about dinosaur eggs and nests at:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/dinoeggs/
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Eggs/default.html

and read the announcement of the Massospondylus eggs at:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0728_050728_dinoembryo.html

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Read about the Liaoning birds at:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/dinobirds
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Chinese-dinosaurs

and see a digital three-dimensional scan of the skull of Confuciusornis at:
http://digimorph.org/specimens/Confuciusornis_sp./skull/

and read about the recent (2010) discovery of melanosomes (and so color) in the feathers of Chinese dinosaurs, at http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/melanosomes

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Read more about Repenomamus, and see color images, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repenomamus

and about Mesozoic mammals in general at:
http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/morganu.htm

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Read about the earliest hominids, Sahelanthropus and Orrorin, at:
http://www.sahelanthropus.com
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/toumai.html

http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/fr/pres/compress/Toumai/Tounaigb/resumegb.html

http://www.dinosoria.com/orrorin.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/a.html

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Read more about Flores man at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/flores/?PHPSESSID=39c6259461798a5ab68c18b3ba45873d
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6294101.stm
http://www.athenapub.com/flores.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/photogalleries/homo_floresiensis_1/photo4.html