These links provide the best entries I have found into the huge Internet web of information about biodiversity and organismal evolution.  The links here are up-to-date as of 9/23/07.  If you find errors, have trouble, or want to tell me about exciting places you've found that cover these topics (so that I can add them for others to investigate), please send me your comments:  click on the following address to send me email:  (fredr@cc.wwu.edu).

Biodiversity  Sites with interesting information about the organisms.

• Bacteria, Archaea, and Protista  Various forms of prokaryotes, other microbes, algae and slime molds.
• Plants
• Fungi
• Animals
• The Tree of Life   An internet phylogenetic tree produced by the collaboration of many authors.  Branches on the tree link to up-to-date and informative pages describing many Phyla of organisms.  The first time you use this, click on the "popular groups" link;  then choose your favorite group from there.

Geology and evolution  Rocks and fossils and the processes that relate to the progression of evolution

Time  Examine these links to explore geological time and the timing of proposed past continental arrangements and the transitions between them

Paleontology  Various links to interesting sites that deal with ancient life

 Evolution  Links to discussions of the fact of evolution, mechanisms and cotroversies

"Cryptogams in Depth"    3-D illustrations of fungi, lichens, bryophytes and slime molds.

"Airnet Lichen Biomonitoring"   A scheme for determining the airquality of where you live.