Paleobiology Features
The Paleobiology Department has developed specialized, interesting, and fun websites on focused topics and useful tools.
![Archaeocete Whales Archaeocete Whales](img_features/helicoprion.jpg)
Helicoprion
See a new life restoration of the enigmatic Permian shark, Helicoprion.
![Underground Carboniferous Rainforest Underground Carboniferous Rainforest](img_features/riola.jpg)
Underground Rainforest
Preserved in the ceiling of a coal mine 250 feet below.
![Dinosaur Website Dinosaur Website](img_features/dinosaurs.jpg)
Dinosaurs!
Some of the most important dinosaurs known to science stand in our exhibit halls.
![Geologic Time Geologic Time](img_features/mollusks.jpg)
Geologic Time
The story of a changing earth through time.
![Life of a Vertebrate Fossil Life of a Vertebrate Fossil](img_features/whales.jpg)
Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
Follow what paleontologists do in each stage in the life of a vertebrate fossil.
![Burgess Shale Burgess Shale](img_features/burgess2.jpg)
Burgess Shale
The famous Canadian fossils discovered by Smithsonian's Charles Walcott.
![Blast From The Past Blast from the past](img_features/asteroid.jpg)
Blast from the Past!
New evidence of an asteroid impact 65 million years ago.
![Paleo Art Paleo Art](img_features/fossilArt.jpg)
Paleo Art
Paleontological art has been used to disseminate our research findings since 1846.
![Giant Fossil Tree Giant Fossil Tree](img_features/giantTree.jpg)
Giant Fossil Scale Tree
One of the largest plant fossils ever collected, weighing more than 16 tons.
![Polyglot Paleo Polyglot Paleo](img_features/polyglot.jpg)
Polyglot Paleontologist
Downloadable English translations of hundreds of paleontological papers.
![Shark Tooth Key Shark Tooth Key](img_features/sharksanddrays.jpg)
Shark Tooth Key
How to sort out and identify fossil shark teeth.
![Archaeocete Whales Archaeocete Whales](img_features/archaeocetes.jpg)
Archaeocete Whales (pdf)
Bibliography of all scientific, and some popular, works.
(Endnote version here)