This online site for the Australian Museum introduces the nature and culture of this unique continent. This particular section focuses on the creatures of Australia including spiders, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, insects, frogs,...

A great reference source for a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. This exhaustive resource also has some prehistoric extinct animals that students can compare to their living counterparts to increase their understanding of...

Bagheera provides an education site devoted to educating people about vanishing and extinct animals and their impact on the environment.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

Learn all about the study of animals--zoology through this interactive website. You will learn about the processes that make animals alive, what makes them endangered or extinct, and the tree of life.

Students doing research projects on panda bears. Can find many resources such as facts, images, and video and audio clips.

Learn some facts about the vaquita, a type of porpoise that is endangered. Book includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about sea turtles in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about cheetahs in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about sawfish in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about the black rhinoceros, an endangered species, in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about whooping cranes in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about gorillas in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about the Western pond turtle in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about the African penguin in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn some facts about the Asian elephant in this book. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Learn about the body structure, habitat, reproduction, movement, and evolution of extreme mammals, both extinct and living, through interative animation and short videos.

Discusses the mass extinction event that wiped out many prehistoric animals 65 million years ago and why there are no dinosaur fossils to be found in Indiana.

This resource provides basic information of the changes that took place during the Permian period as well as the animals that populated the Earth during this time.

Evolution is the change of inherited characteristics within a population over time through natural selection, which may result in the formation of a new species. Fossils provide a record of organisms that lived a long time ago. They also...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about protecting the rainforest and the animals that live there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

The Thylacine, once an inhabitant of Australia is now extinct because of excessive hunting and competition with dingos and dogs. The Australian Museum provides general information on this interesting carnivore and photographs of the last...

Can you imagine finding something in the ground that may be more than 30,000 years old? Read about the 11 year old boy who made an incredible discovery.

DigiMorph is a database of high-quality images from living and extinct animals, made available for scientists, educators, researchers and students. This section is devoted to dinosaur fossils, some of them among the most famous in the...