Animal Diversity Web content is now available through the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org/). ADW and EoL have agreed to share content and resources to increase access to animal natural history information.

Taxon Tree, the graphic taxonomy visualization tool previously available through the Animal Diversity Web, is no longer available on the site. We continue to look into ways to coordinate ADW database and Taxon Tree development.

The Animal Diversity Web and University of Michigan's School of Education continue their collaboration developing and testing biodiversity curricula in Detroit Public Schools. The "DeepThink" project was funded by the National Science Foundation's Learning Progressions program. This project will develop, implement, and test an innovative set of curricula for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades with structured progression in both content and reasoning complexity.

The Animal Diversity Web received funding from the National Science Foundation's Course Curriculum and Lab Improvement program to develop, implement, and assess the use of our structured query tool for inquiry learning in a variety of undergraduate courses. This structured query tool permits complex queries to extract ADW natural history data, which can then be used to directly test hypotheses in organismal biology. The structured query tool, and exercises designed for it, will be tested in 5 undergraduate institutions in Fall 2007.

As part of a collaborative effort with the ETHAN (Evolutionary Trees and Natural History Ontology) project, the Animal Diversity Web is now providing Web Ontology Language (OWL) versions of all of its animal taxon accounts. The Animal Diversity Web will continue to cooperate with projects involving development of the semantic web. More information on recent work in the ETHAN project is available here.

On August 27th, 2006 the Animal Diversity Web published its 3000th animal taxon account! We continue to add content of all kinds and now also have over 11,000 images, 2758 images of museum specimens, and 724 sound files. These 3000 taxon accounts includes more than 1500 mammal species accounts, approximately %38 percent of all extant mammal species. We anticipate publishing an additional 100 animal taxon accounts by the end of 2006.