Links

This is just a li’l compilation of all the sites that I think are useful in one way or another. This is by no means exhaustive, so if you know of others which I have missed, please feel free to message me to reveal my ignorance!

Palaeontology

Blogs etc.

• http://paleochick.blogspot.com/
• http://dinogoss.blogspot.com/ – Matt Martyniuk’s personal blog
• http://fossilsandotherlivingthings.blogspot.com/
• http://paleocoll.blogspot.com/
• http://protichnoctem.blogspot.com/ – Matt Burton-Kelly’s personal webby
• http://subhumanfreak.blogspot.com/ – The Disillusioned Taxonomist
• http://jdorcutt.blogspot.com/ – The Oregon Trail
• http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/ – The Theropod Database Blog by Mickey Mortimer
• http://scottsampson.blogspot.com/ – Scott Sampson’s The Whirlpool of Life
• http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/ – Michael Ryan’s personal blog
• http://paleoerrata.blogspot.com/ – Jeffrey Martz’s personal blog
• http://saurian.blogspot.com/ – Mark Wildman’s personal blog
• http://skeletaldrawing.blogspot.com/ – One of my favourites, Scott Hartman’s excellent palaeo-art
• http://svpow.wordpress.com/ – The infamous blog, entirely dedicated to sauropod vertebrae (almost)
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/ – Darren Naish’s blog
• http://qilong.wordpress.com/ – Jaime Headden’s personal blog
• http://dinosaurpalaeo.wordpress.com/ – Heinrich Mallison’s personal blog
• http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/ – Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings   <3
• http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/ – Mark Vincent and David Orr’s personal blog
• http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/ – Dinosaur Tracking, by Brian Switek
• http://dracovenator.wordpress.com/ – Adam Yates’ personal blog
• http://www.drip.de/
• http://jurassicjourneys.net/ – Matthew Bonnan’s personal blog
• http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/laelaps Brian Switek again, aka @Laelaps
• http://opendino.wordpress.com/ – The Open Dinosaur Project. If Carlsberg did blogs..
• http://chinleana.fieldofscience.com/ – Triassic Palaeo news and views
• http://contemplativemammoth.wordpress.com/ – Jacquelyn Gill’s personal blog
• http://www.charnia.org.uk/ – Leicester’s Literary and Philosophical Society, Geology section
• http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/publications-recent.html – Publications list from the University of Bristol’s Palaeo Group
• http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/index.htm – Website for the Royal Tyrrell Museum
• http://strata.uga.edu/ – Steven Holland’s Stratigraphy Lab
• https://sites.google.com/site/richardbutlerpalaeontologist/home – Richard Butler’s personal webby, with publications
• http://www.cladistics.org/hennigTransaction.php – Icanhazcladistics?
• http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/
• http://ldarrasresearchdiary.wordpress.com/ – Laurent Darass’ work page on [fossil] fish ecology

Tools

• http://paleodb.org/ – Fossil database, so very bloody awesome
• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Index.html – Norm MacLeod’s personal webby
• http://www.paleobase.com/ - An illustrated, relational database of invertebrate fossils for education and research
• http://www.palaeo-electronica.org/blog/ – The World’s first fully electronic, open access palaeontological journal, now in blog form!
• http://www.vertnet.org/about/project.php – VertNet project
• http://www.graemetlloyd.com/matr.html – Graeme Lloyd’s assemblage of all known publications with cladistic matrices including Mesozoic dinosaurs. Wow.
• http://www.paleoglot.org/signin.cfm – For online translations of palaeo papers, very handy!
• http://cactus.dixie.edu/jharris/Journal_Links.html – Vertebrate palaeo journal links

Other Science

• http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/apurvis/  – Andy Purivs’ lab @ Imperial College London, focussing on macroevolution and diversity dynamics
• http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~lukeh/ – The Harmon Lab, where magic happens!

Software

• http://biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Garland/PDAP.html - Phenotypic diversity analysis programs
• http://www.indiana.edu/~martinsl/compare/ Useful online java-based software for phylogenetic comparative methods
• http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~hadas/jane/ – Cophylogeny reconstruction tool
• http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/ – Palaeo and stats.. :/
• http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html – Slightly out-of-date list of phylogeny programs
• http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/ – Moarphometrics! The best site for guides, and also contains the freeware tps series, an incredibly easy to use series of morphometrics software.
• http://www.zmuc.dk/public/phylogeny/tnt/ – TNT cladistics software

Other

• http://davidpj.wordpress.com/ – Blog of an Aussie mate, usually has nice pictures
• http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/courses/phdopportunities – PhDs @ Imperial College London
• http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoMeet12/ - Third UK One-Day Meeting on
  Morphometrics and Statistical Shape Analysis, 6th Jan 2012, York
• http://smacademia.wordpress.com/ Interdisciplinary articles, run by a palaeontologist!
• http://www.nextnature.net/
• http://davidpj.wordpress.com/ – Dave Robertson’s personal blog; science communicator, Asutralian, and photographer extraordinaire!