This collection of fossils contains 300 fossils of vertebrates and invertebrates and casts of fossils from national museums, universities and private collections. For each geologic time period, the website provides ancient world configurations, important ancient world physiographic features, ancient world locations where the fossils were found, and a comprehensive table with thumbnails of all fossils ... Full description.

This database provides access to information about dinosaurs. The reference area is searchable by genus, species, author, or year. Reference information includes a description of the dinosaur's name, information on its discovery, and some statistics (length, weight, diet, time span of the species). There is also a taxonomic classification, a brief description of the dinosaur, an an image (where available). ... Full description.

This site offers links to current volcanic activity reports, volcanic hazards mitigation, information on Central American volcanoes, remote sensing of volcanoes, volcanologic research in online journals, and more. There are also links to a site with information on becoming a volcanologist, and a comics page of volcano humor. Full description.

Minerals are all around us. They're in our kitchens and bathrooms, our classrooms and school buildings, and our cars and bicycles. This interactive feature lets users discover which minerals are found in items they probably encounter every day. Rolling the cursor over items in an illustrated room accesses pop-ups that describe what mineral products may be found in them. A background essay and list ... Full description.

Rosetta is the European Space Agency's comet exploration spacecraft. Materials presented here describe the space craft and its mission, which is to rendezvous with and orbit Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and soft-land an instrument package on the comet's nucleus. En route to the comet, it will perform fly-bys of two asteroids, Steins and Lutetia. Topics include a mission summary, background science, ... Full description.

This site contains various kinds of textual information and imagery of Emiliania huxleyi, an armour-plated, photosynthesizing, single-celled marine phytoplankton and dominant coccolithophore in the ocean. Numerous summaries of the species are provided, including information on its occurrence, global distribution, effects on the carbon cycle and global climate, calcification, vital statistics, cellular ... Full description.

This website about South Florida water, ecosystems, and animals offers information and activities for primary through middle school children. It includes present and past flow patterns and plans to restore the ecosystem; brief descriptions of coral reefs, dunes, marshes, swamps, hardwood hammocks (thick stands of hardwood trees on slight rises in wetlands), mangroves, pinelands and scrubs (pinewood ... Full description.

This teacher's guide includes a collection of activities intended to accompany the 'The Hidden Lives of Galaxies' poster. The activities deal with the formation, history, and properties of galaxies. Topics include how galaxies get their names, the components of a galaxy, and clustering of galaxies. There are also discussions of the hidden aspects of these bodies, including black holes, hidden mass, ... Full description.

This site discusses the fossils of a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops that were evidently fighting and somehow were buried in mid fight. There are three parts to the site. The first part allows the student to view the fossil through the eyes of a paleontologist. The second part explores some theories of how the animals were rapidly buried and the third part gives students the opportunity to match ... Full description.

Life in the Solar System is a Windows to the Universe Exploratour and provides a look at the environments of some places in the solar system, including Mercury, Venus, Mars present and past, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Saturn, Titan, other moons, Uranus, Neptune, Triton, Pluto, comets, and interstellar space. Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system pertaining to the Earth and Space sciences. ... Full description.