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The Age of the Earth Amber: Window to the Past - Click on different pieces of amber to find out what is captured inside and what clues the fossilized remains provide about ancient ecosystems. Extinctions from PBS Fantastic Fossil Finds - Burgess Shale, LaBrea tar pits, Solnhofen Quarry, and Subtropical Eocene Fossil Forests of the North Fossil Database - from the Natural History Museum of London Geologic Time and the age of the earth Geology and Geologic Time - General history of the science, links to each of the eras and the life in them. History of Flight - Pterosaurs, Bird Evolution, Insect Flight and Archaeopteryx Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum - posted by The Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Horse Evolution Invertebrates - Gastropoda & Cephalopoda Life Has a History - an educational module sponsored by the National Science Foundation Microscopic fossils - Foraminifera & Arcellaceans Museum of Paleontology - posted by University of California, Berkley Paleogeography Through Geologic Time Paleontological Collection Catalogs and related resources Paleontology Without Walls - Introduction to the UCMP Virtual Exhibits The Pleistocene - 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago Pleistocene Animals of the Midwestern U.S. Timelines - Travel back to different time periods in the history of the earth. Vivid, fleshed-out reproductions of the extinct creatures appear in scenes depicting their environments as they might have been millions of years ago. Trilobite: A guide to the order of Trilobites