Extinct Organism Project

One Database - requires password:

ABC-CLIO's World History: Ancient and Medieval
http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Home/Default.aspx
No password needed at school.
From home, enter the username and password Mrs. Woo gave you.
Woolly Mammoth.

Grolier Online
http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=grolier
Enter your public library card number, or the HRMS number Mrs. Woo gave you. Then click on Grolier Online and key in the name of your animal on the next page.
(tasmanian tiger/wolf; thylacine)

E-Books
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/danv55816?db=GVRl
Use the password Mrs. Woo gave you and then key in the name of your animal.

Free Web Sites:

Natural History Notebooks
http://nature.ca/notebooks/english/birdpg.htm
Click on "Dodo" under "Featured Birds" and click on "Great Auk" and "Passenger Pigeon" in the list underneath.

Natural History Notebooks
http://nature.ca/notebooks/english/woolly.htm
Woolly Mammoth

Audubon's Birds of America
http://www.audubon.org/bird/BoA/BOA_index.html
After clicking to enter site, choose "Extinct Birds" and then "Passenger Pigeon" and "Great Auk."

Chipper Woods Bird Observatory
http://www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/passpigeon.htm
Passenger Pigeon.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/nmnh/passpig.htm
Passenger Pigeon

American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Passenger_Pigeons/pigeons.html?dinos Passenger Pigeon and Dodo Bird

The Tragedy of the Dodo
http://www.davidreilly.com/dodo/

Kidzworld: The Dodo Bird
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/353-history-the-dodo-bird

The Ivory Bill: The Extinct Dodo
http://ivorybill.com/g/dodo.htm

The Ivory Bill: The Extinct Great Auk
http://www.ivorybill.com/g/greatauk.htm

The Ivory Bill: The Extinct Passenger Pigeon
http://50birds.com/GExtinct2.htm

Encyclopedia Britannica: The Great Auk
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/242880/great-auk

Encyclopedia Britannica: The Dodo Bird
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/167601/dodo

Encyclopedia Britannica: The Passenger Pigeon
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/445698/passenger-pigeon

Encyclopedia Britannica: The Woolly Mammoth
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/647825/woolly-mammoth

Discovery Education: Woolly Mammoth
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/woollymammoth/

Woolly Mammoth
http://www.woollymammoth.org/

University of California Museum of Paleontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/carnivora/sabretooth.html
Sabretooth tiger

Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/smilodon/
(also tasmanian wolf)

This site was last updated on September 7, 2010 10:21 PM by Mrs. Woo, Librarian

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