FOSSIL LINKS

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General Fossil Links

BBCi Fact Files - Detailed information (with pictures) on dinosaurs and prehistoric snakes, lizards, sea life, mammals, and more!

Bone Room - If you're in the market for a complete, articulated Cave Bear skeleton (just $17,000), this is the place!

Bosco's Rockpile - A source for all sorts of information on dinosaurs, extinction theories, fossils, rocks, and minerals, including a fossil gallery.

Collecting Fossils in California - Detailed information and maps for collecting all types of fossils -- and a forum, too.

Discovering Fossils - An education resource dedicated to British fossils, fossil collecting locations, and the geology of the UK.

Fossil Hut - Offering fossil preparation services for your finds.

Fossil News Articles - Interesting articles about all types of fossils.

Geoclassics - Pictures of unusual vertebrate (and other) fossils.

Imprints of the Past - The Smithsonian Institution's fossil website, with information on dinosaurs, pterodons, giant sharks' teeth, trilobites, and much more.

Museum of Paleontology - Facts about and photos of both rare and common fossils from the University of California at Berkeley.

My Jurassic Park - Jurassic Park dinosaur models, busts and fossils for sale, articles on creating the JP dinosaurs, links, and more.

Nova's Fossil Page - The dinosaurs were not alone. . . .

Opal Fossils from Opal Trader - Gorgeous, fiery opal fossil shells and belemnites, plus a wide assortment of cut opals, opal rough, and opal jewelry.

PaleoSearch - A source for rare and exotic fossils.

Paleozoic.org - Wow! This site has some great information about fossils.

Science Daily - Fossils and ruins news -- up-to-date.

Stone Company - Fossil preparation services, appraisals, and the home of the traveling dinosaur egg exhibit, "Hatching the Past."

Two Guys Fossils - Invertebrate replicas and excavation kits for lesson plans and science fair projects.

Amber Links

Amber - Garry Platt's very comprehensive amber resource.

Amber: Arboreal Gold - An amber enthusiast's site with neat pics of flora and fauna in amber.

Amber: Window to the Past - The American Museum of Natural History's amber website.

Extracting DNA From Amber - Could Jurassic Park really happen? Read about it here.

The Natural History of Amber - More way cool pics -- can you find the practical joke?

Ammonite Links

Ammolite Guaranteed - Ammolite jewelry, Feng Shui ammonites and Cretaceous period ammonite fossils.

Bearpaw Ammonites - A dealer of gem-grade ammolites and iridescent ammonites.

PaleoDirect - Basic information on ammonites and other fossil forms.

Coprolite Links

Coprolite - Fossilized Dung - Full of information about coprolite and dinosaurs.

Extracting DNA from Coprolites - Could fossilized dung be our key to finding out what wiped out the dinosaurs?

Science News Online - Get the scoop on the T. Rex poop!

Fish/Shark Links

Bill Heim on Sharks - Some advanced information on extinct sharks and their teeth.

FossilFish.com - Good, basic to intermediate information on fossil fish, especially those from the Green River Formation.

Fossil Shark Teeth Identification - Not sure what you've got? Take a look at this resource.

Jaws! - Wow!

Steve's Fossil Shark Teeth - General information about fossilized megalodon sharks' teeth.

Orthoceras Links

Cephalopods from Lake Temiscamingue Fossil Centre - One of the few good resources available on this extinct cephalopod.

Petrified Wood Links

Eden Valley Petrified Wood - Information on fossil wood from Wyoming.

Louisiana Petrified Wood - Great information on the origin and types of petrified wood in the U.S.

Petrified Wood from Desert USA - A walk through the Petrified Forest in Arizona -- from 225 million years ago to today!

Petrified Wood From Western Washington - How to identify petrified wood and selected references.

Your Gemologist - Step-by-step of how petrified wood forms.

Trilobite Links

Arthropods from Lake Temiscamingue Fossil Centre - Good, basic information about the ancestors of our insects, lobsters, and spiders.

What are Trilobites? - An in-depth resource on Trilobites.