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FishBase
- Offers everything you ever wanted to know about fishes. The heart of the site is two databases, FishBase and LarvalBase, the first containing information on over 23,000 species (91,000 common names), 41,000 synonyms, 18,000 pictures, and 17,000 references; the latter featuring 400 species, 500 pictures, and 700 references.
URL: http://www.fishbase.org
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Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
- Located at the Department of Physiology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, this site offers images and information from "one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains." The site features photos of brains of over 100 different species of mammals, representing 17 mammalian orders.
URL: http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/brain
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eNature.com
- Nature portal offers online searchable field guides to over 4,800 plant and animal species. Derived from 35 different Audubon Society Field Guides, Regional Guides, and Nature Guides, the database is keyword-searchable by group (mammals, amphibians, fishes, trees, etc.) or browseable within subheadings for each group. The field guide entries include a large thumbnail image, description, and varying additional information.
URL: http://www.enature.com
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Journey North
- The journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring. Students share their own field observations with classrooms across the Hemisphere.
URL: http://www.learner.org/jnorth
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Australian Fish Museum
- Contains a host of resources for researchers, students, and interested visitors. The heart of the site is the Find a Fish section, a collection of hundreds of fact sheets on fish, sorted by common or scientific name.
URL: http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/
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WorldBiomes.com
- WorldBiomes.com is a site covering 5 of the major world biomes. What's a biome? Biomes are the various regions of our planet which can best be distinguished by their climate, fauna and flora. Scientists argue on the exact number, or different types of biomes in existence.
URL: http://www.worldbiomes.com/
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The ABC's of Animal Taxonomy [Donald L. Blanchard]
- Taxonomy: The science of classifying plants and animals into species and logical groups of species. This article was originally published in The Cold Blooded News, the newsletter of the Colorado Herpetological Society, Vol 26, #1, January, 1999.
URL: http://www.pcisys.net/~dlblanc/taxonomy.html
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Frog pictures and sounds
- Bullfrog, Green Frog, Pickerel Frog, etc.
URL: http://ctamp.homestead.com/ctamphibians.html
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Wildlife Encyclopedia
- Pictures of wildlife, especially from Africa.
URL: http://www.safaricamlive.com/wildlife.htm
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Taxonomy
- Mammalia Nisäkkäät Mammals
Aves Linnut Birds
Reptilia Matelijat
Batrachia Sammakkoeläimet
Pisces Kalat ja muut Fishes and suchlike
URL: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/
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Common and Scientific Names for Squirrels
- Bornean black-banded squirrel. ( Callosciurus orestes)
Bornean ear-spot squirrel. ( Callosciurus adamsi)
Bornean mountain ground squirrel. ( Dremomys everetti)
Brazilian squirrel. ( Sciurus gilvigularis)
Brooke's squirrel. ( Sundasciurus brookei)
California ground squirrel. ( Spermophilus beecheyi)
Cape Ground Squirrel ( Xerus inauris)
Cascade mantled ground squirrel. ( Spermophilus saturatus)
Central American dwarf Squirrel. ( Microsciurus alfari)
Central American montane squirrel. ( Syntheosciurus brochus)
Chickarees ( Tamiasciurus)
URL: http://www.squirrels.org/t_names.html
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Field and Forest Photo Competition
- Pictures of nature.
URL: http://www.fieldandforest.com/contest.html
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