ScienceScan notes on dinosaur URL's

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VISIT HOOPER'S VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF 
PALEONTOLOGY

Come visit Hooper's Virtual Museum of Paleontology 
Museum which includes on-line exhibits of the Cretaceous, 
the Burgess Shale, possible Mars fossils, human evolution, 
and more.  The museum which does not have a physical 
counterpart is the result of a variety of college projects to 
teach Canadian students about paleontology.  The result is a 
virtual museum that has a comprehensive paleontological 
display with all of the students view points.

Go to 
http://superior.carleton.ca/~tpatters/Museum/hvpmdoor.html 
to visit this museum.
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THE RAYMOND M. ALF MUSEUM CAN BE FOUND 
ON-LINE

The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology acts as a 
center for paleontological education and research by 
maintaining and continually expanding its outstanding 
regional collection of fossils, presently numbering over 
70,000 specimens. It now has some of these specimens 
displayed on-line which include: Precambrian specimens 
from the Bass Limestone (Arizona), Permian vertebrate and 
invertebrate trackways from the Coconino Sandstone 
(Arizona), plants and insects from the Green River Shale 
(Eocene; Utah), and Cretaceous and early Paleocene 
vertebrates from eastern Montana (Hell Creek and Tullock 
formations).

Go to 
http://www.webb.put.k12.ca.us/webb/Alf/AlfHome.html to 
view some of these specimens.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GEOLOGY 
MUSEUM HAS WWW EXHIBITS

The University of Wisconsin Geology Museum hosts more 
than 25,000 visitors and provides 600 educational tours each 
year and now can be visited via the internet. The museum 
displays minerals, rocks, fossils, a 6-foot globe, and a walk-
through model of a Wisconsin limestone cave. The vertebrate 
section includes the skeletons of a Wisconsin mastodon, a 
35-foot-long dinosaur (Edmontosaurus), a mosasaur, and a 
saber-tooth cat. Major holdings include research collections 
of ores from the Mississippi Valley Lead-Zinc District, and 
the Bushveld Complex, as well as extensive collections of 
Paleozoic fossils from Wisconsin and areas nearby.

Go to http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/ to pay these 
exhibits a visit.