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Proteaceae – Australian plants (Australian Museum Online, Australia)

Provides an introduction to the Proteaceae family.
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/proteaceae.htm

Proteaceae illustrations (Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources)

Contains a series of illustrations of plants in the Proteaceae family.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/proteaceae/illustrations.html

Drifting proteas or continents? Historical biogeography of the Proteaceae (Public lecture series 2006–07, Australian Academy of Science)

Transcript of a lecture given by Dr Peter Weston. Discusses the biogeographical history of the Proteaceae.
http://www.science.org.au/events/publiclectures/os/weston.htm

The story of Gondwana (Australian Plants Society, Australia)

Provides a geologic timeline of Earth and Gondwana.
http://www.apstas.com/gondwanastory.htm

Continental drift and evolution (Biology at University of Cincinnati Clermont College, USA)

Contains information on the evolution of species and continental drift.
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Courses/bio303/contdrift.htm

Continental drift animations (Paleomap Project USA)

Provides links to interactive animations and descriptions of continental drift.
http://www.scotese.com/newpage13.htm

Understanding evolution (University of California Museum of Paleontology, USA)

• Welcome to Evolution 101!
  Provides information on the patterns and mechanisms of evolution.
  http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01

• Phylogenetic systematics, a.k.a. evolutionary trees
  Provides information on the use and construction of evolutionary trees.
  http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/phylogenetics_01

Bone diggers (Nova, USA)

• Evolution down under
  Answers the question 'How did Australia come to be marsupial heaven?'
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bonediggers/evolution.html

• The extinction enigma
  Discusses reasons behind the extinction of 'megafauna' in Australia.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bonediggers/extinction.html

• Australia's vanished beasts
  Contains illustrations of 'megafauna' that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bonediggers/vanished.html

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Oldest fossil vertebrate embryo (The Science Show, 31 May 2008)
  Announces the Australian discovery of the oldest fossilised vertebrate embryo
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2260805.htm

• OZ fossils
  Explores the evolution of life in Australia using fossils.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/ozfossil/

• Fossils from the final frontier (Features, 16 August 2007)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/antarcticfossils/

• Found! World's oldest tree (News in Science, 19 April 2007)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1901623.htm

• Ediacara – Australia'a own geological period (Catalyst, 9 November 2006)
  http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1785092.htm

• Evolution River (Catalyst, 2 November 2006)
  http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1778907.htm

• Proteas hitched a ride as Gondwana split (News in Science, 20 September 2006)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1744327.htm

• Tropics the hot spot for speedy evolution (News in Science, 2 May 2006)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1625917.htm

• The pine that time forgot (Features, 19 May 2005)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/wollemi/default.htm

• Turning of the Fagus (Scribbly Gum, 1 April 2000)
  http://abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/April2000/default.htm

Basic botany (Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, UK)

• Studying plant diversity – plant classification
  Provides information on the classification of plants.
  http://www.kew.org/ksheets/pdfs/b1classification.pdf

• Plant names
  Explains the naming of plants.
  http://www.kew.org/ksheets/pdfs/b2names.pdf

• Plant structure – leaves, stems and roots
  Provides diagrams of the leaves, roots and stems systems of plants.
  http://www.kew.org/ksheets/pdfs/b3plant.pdf

• Flower structure and variations
  Contains information about the functions and structures of flowers.
  http://www.kew.org/ksheets/pdfs/b4flower.pdf