Explain how fossils provide information about the past SPI 0507.5.2

Links verified 9/18/2014

1. Amber: Window to the Past - Click on different pieces of amber to find out what is captured inside and what clues the fossilized remains provide about ancient ecosystems. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
2. Evolution from PBS
3. Evolution: Theory and History - including journey into the world of phylogenic systematics.
4. Extinctions from PBS
5. Fantastic Fossil Finds - Burgess Shale, LaBrea tar pits, Solnhofen Quarry, and Subtropical Eocene Fossil Forests of the North [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Fossil Database - from the Natural History Museum of London
7. Fossil News - from Science Daily
8. Geologic Time and the age of the earth.
9. Geology and Geologic Time - General history of the science, links to each of the eras and the life in them.
10. Horse Evolution
11. Human Fossil Database - browse or search the database, or use their timeline [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
12. Life Has a History - an educational module sponsored by the National Science Foundation (select level 3 for 9-12)
13. Museum of Paleontology - posted by University of California, Berkley
14. Paleogeography Through Geologic Time
15. Paleontology Without Walls - Introduction to the UCMP Virtual Exhibits
16. The Pleistocene - 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago
17. Pleistocene Animals of the Midwestern U.S.
18. Timelines - Travel back to different time periods in the history of the earth. Vivid, fleshed-out reproductions of the extinct creatures appear in scenes depicting their environments as they might have been millions of years ago. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
19. Trilobite: A guide to the order of Trilobites

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