PALEONTOLOGY, with an emphasis on dinosaurs
Bureau of Land Management

Hosted by the Bureau of Land Management, this Web site is based on an article in "Science and Children", published by the National Science Teachers Association in 1997. Approximate grade level 3-9.

There are segments on:

• The history of the development of U.S. paleontology (concentrating on vertebrates)
• The process of fossilization
• Possibilities for, and restrictions on, collecting fossils on public lands
• Teaching resources available from the BLM and (very incompletely) on the Web
• Dinosaur tooth structure and digestion
• What kinds of sediments best preserve impressions of fossils
• Classification of fossils
• How the names of fossils are derived
• How the stance of a dinosaur can be deduced from its skeleton
• The process of fossilization
• Facts and fictions about dinosaurs
• A list of interpreted paleontological sites administered by the BLM
• Major groupings of dinosaurs.

Suggested classroom activities accompany many of these topics.

An over-emphatic background wallpaper makes the text difficult to read.

Some confusion is introduced by the displacement of a " sample chart" from the segment on classification to the segment on naming.