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! Greenworks Organic-Software, Berlin, Germany: XfrogPlants V 2.0 Plant Library. XfrogPlants are 22 different 3D Plant Libraries, each containing 20 Species x 3 ages, and created using Xfrog procedural organic software. Samples of each plant in each library available, go to: Fossil Plants. Excellent!

! Greenworks Organic-Software, Berlin, Germany: XfrogPlants V 2.0 Plant Library. XfrogPlants are 22 different 3D Plant Libraries, each containing 20 Species x 3 ages, and created using Xfrog procedural organic software. Samples of each plant in each library available, go to: Trees.

Washington Post (free access, registration procedure required):
Evolving Toward a Compromise (by Amy Binder and John H. Evans, July 26, 2008).

BBC News: Rare fossils in India threatened (by Salman Ravi, july 25, 2008).

Times Online, UK (The best of The Times and The Sunday Times):
The creation of Creationism (by John Habgood, July 23, 2008).

Paul F. Ciesielski, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Florida: Evolution of Earth and Life. Go to: Transition of plants to land.

Alison Campbell, Penelope Cooke, Kathrin Cass and Kerry Earl, The "Evolution for Teaching" Website Project, University of Waikato, New Zealand: The Evolution of Life. Information about the evolution of life on Earth. Go to: Plant Evolution.

Alison Campbell, Penelope Cooke, Kathrin Cass and Kerry Earl, The "Evolution for Teaching" Website Project, University of Waikato, New Zealand: The Evolution of Life. Information about the evolution of life on Earth. Go to: Glossary.

Till Hanebuth, Bastian Roters and Karl-Heinz Baumann, FB 05 Research group Sedimentology and Palaeoceanography, Bremen University, Germany: What are coccolithophores?

Times Online, UK (The best of The Times and The Sunday Times):
Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup (by Kate Muir, July 19, 2008).

The Paleontological Society: Paleontological Schedule for the 2008 Geological Society of America Meeting, October 4-9th, 2008 in Houston, Texas.

Houston, Texas: The 2008 Joint Annual Meeting, October 5-9, 2008. The joint meeting between The Geological Society of America (GSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS), hosted by the Houston Geological Society (HGS).

Answers.com (previously GuruNet), New York City & Jerusalem: Coccolithophorida.

! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Evolutionary history of plants, and Timeline of plant evolution.

Anthony Pigott, National Collection of Equisetum. Go to:
A Brief Introduction to Equisetum. Worth checking out:
Cultivation of Horsetails. (based on an article first published 1988 in the Pteridologist 1: 209).

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis).

Wollemi Pine North America, San Diego, CA: About Wollemi.

Marilyn Davis, Perspectives, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: LUSH LIFE: What early land plants can tell us about earth’s family tree.

W.P. Armstrong, WAYNE'S WORD, (1999): Plants of Jurassic Park. Easy to understand article (modified from Pacific Horticulture 55: 42-48).

! Robert Anderson, Natural History Magazine (2008): Paleobotany.

L. Immoor, Geoteach.Com. Introductions to Earth Science, Graphs and Equations.

Montgomery College Library, Lone Star College-Montgomery, Conroe TX: Overviews of Plantae. An annotated link list.

New Scientist:
New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US (by Amanda Gefter, July 09, 2008).

William Friedman et al., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder: Molecular and Organismal Research in Plant History, MORPH. MORPH, an NSF research coordination network, fosters cross-disciplinary interactions between organismic and molecular plant biologists studying the evolution of morphological diversity to promote a modern synthesis in plant evolutionary developmental biology. Go to: Publications.

W.E. Friedman (1996): Introduction to biology and evolution of the Gnetales. PDF file, International Journal of Plant Sciences 157(6) (supplement): 1-2.

Earth Pages (Wiley Blackwell). A starting point for web exploration in the earth sciences. Go to: Resource Center.

Earth Pages (Wiley Blackwell). A starting point for web exploration in the earth sciences. Go to: Books. This book catalogue can be searched by author, title and from a list of books by category, as well from the entire list of titles alphabetically (by author or by title).

Earth Pages (Wiley Blackwell). A starting point for web exploration in the earth sciences. Go to: News.

Michael Bennett and Ilia Leitch, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Plant DNA C-values Database. The Plant DNA C-values Database currently contains data for 5150 different plant species. It combines data from the Angiosperm DNA C-values Database (C-values are the DNA amount in the unreplicated gametic nucleus of an organism), Gymnosperm, Pteridophyte, and Bryophyte DNA C-values Database, together with the addition of the Algae DNA C-values database.

Laurence A. Moran, Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. See also here. Go to: What Is Evolution? See also here.

USA Today:
When science doesn't douse faith (by Jonathan Rosen, July 07, 2008).

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft idw, (in German)
"Viva la Evolución!" (by Florian Klebs, Hohenheim).

FAZ-NET (Frankfurter Allgemeine, a German newspaper):
Mutter Natur? Dass ich nicht lache (July 08, 2008, in German)

Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS): The Paleobotany Project. The DMNS Paleobotany Project acts as a repository of images (and accepted nomenclature) of Late Cretaceous through Eocene fossil plants from the Western Interior of North America.

Nikita Julievich Kluge, Department of Entomology, S.-Petersburg State University. Russia: General Principles of Biological Systematics. Chapter 1 from the book "Modern Systematics of Insects".

Joe Felsenstein, Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington: Phylogeny programs available elsewhere. Links to 383 phylogeny packages (free and non-free ones) and 52 free servers.

! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC: NOAA’s mission is to understand and predict changes in Earth’s environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources. Go to: International Multiproxy Paleofire Database.

! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington, DC: NOAA’s mission is to understand and predict changes in Earth’s environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources. Go to: NOAA Paleoclimatology. NOAA Paleoclimatology operates the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology and the Applied Research Center for Paleoclimatology, with the goal to provide data and information scientists need to understand natural climate variability as well as future climate change.

UCD Plant Palaeoecology and Palaeobiology Group, Dublin. Links.

Studia Geologica Polonica: The journal includes original scientific monographs or sets of contributions on selected geological topics, including geological results of the Polish Arctic and Antarctic scientific expeditions, monographs on regional geology, stratigraphy, tectonics, sedimentology, Quaternary of Central Europe, palaeontology etc.

K. Birkenmajer & A.M. Ociepa (2008): Plant-bearing Jurassic strata at Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula (West Antarctica): geology and fossil-plant description. PDF file, Studia Geologica Polonica, 128: 5-96.

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem: Internet Resources Botany. An annotated link list.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Pyrite (page 253).

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Taphonomy.

Project Exploration, Chicago, IL (a nonprofit science education organization that makes science accessible to the public): Links, Paleobotany & Botany.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Major Events in the History of Life.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: The Evolutionary Process and the Fossil Record, and Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis. (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Palaeoecology.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biostratigraphy.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Infrastructure of Palaeobiology.

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