Trivium Academy
05-04-2008, 07:46 AM
About the site's purpose:
As this site has developed, we've learned that the paleo web is dominated by two groups: educators and academic scientists. The educators tend to want everything boiled down to colorful, but tasteless and insubstantial uniformity. The academic scientists tend to be paralyzed by detail. We aim to steer a middle course, avoiding neither the difficult and technical problems, nor the uncertainty inherent in saying anything meaningful about deep time. Truthfully, we scarcely steer at all, but proceed from subject to subject in the manner of a bumper car ride or a destruction derby. We have no overriding mission to educate or provide definitive guidance. Rather, our's is a more self-indulgent attempt to explore the world and to pick up rocks just to see what's under them.
You have to be familiar with classification to navigate but if you are this can be a fabulous resource for illustrations and descriptions. I found this because I wanted to know what the characteristics/differences are between Arthropods Mandibulates (Hexapods [insects], Myriapods, Crustaceans) and Arthropods Chelicerates (Arachnids, Sea Spiders and Horseshoe Crabs). The site is linked with other resources and links that vary in helpfulness, there are pictures, diagrams and defining terms throughout to help.
There are times the site gets very technical but it's been a great resource for me and I thought I would share it. I hope it helps someone else.
http://www.palaeos.com/
As this site has developed, we've learned that the paleo web is dominated by two groups: educators and academic scientists. The educators tend to want everything boiled down to colorful, but tasteless and insubstantial uniformity. The academic scientists tend to be paralyzed by detail. We aim to steer a middle course, avoiding neither the difficult and technical problems, nor the uncertainty inherent in saying anything meaningful about deep time. Truthfully, we scarcely steer at all, but proceed from subject to subject in the manner of a bumper car ride or a destruction derby. We have no overriding mission to educate or provide definitive guidance. Rather, our's is a more self-indulgent attempt to explore the world and to pick up rocks just to see what's under them.
You have to be familiar with classification to navigate but if you are this can be a fabulous resource for illustrations and descriptions. I found this because I wanted to know what the characteristics/differences are between Arthropods Mandibulates (Hexapods [insects], Myriapods, Crustaceans) and Arthropods Chelicerates (Arachnids, Sea Spiders and Horseshoe Crabs). The site is linked with other resources and links that vary in helpfulness, there are pictures, diagrams and defining terms throughout to help.
There are times the site gets very technical but it's been a great resource for me and I thought I would share it. I hope it helps someone else.
http://www.palaeos.com/