January 2025
Learning resources
Below you can find links to two more pages. One of these is an index of topics within evolution & palaeobiology, and the other focusses on fossils. Each index links you to further pages, and each one of these focusses on a particular topics. You will find videos, quizzes, and 3D models of fossils. I provide an overview of each index page below – click on a link to begin.
If you are new to palaeontology/geology, you might find that this primer on the geological column provides useful context for the timescales involved.
If you would like to learn about who wrote these materials, please click here to visit the homepage of my website.
Eleven sites, covering:
- The origins and history of life, first in the sea and then its move onto land.
- Evolution, biogeography and ecology in deep time.
- Extinctions, and how palaeobiology can inform conservation in today's ecosystems.
- The history of palaeontology as a discipline.
As well as providing an understanding evolution and the history of life, these aim to explain the origins of the biodiversity and ecosystems around us today, and how we can try and minimise the impact our activity as humans has on these.
Explore evolution & palaeobiology
Eight sites introducing a number of major invertebrate animal groups commonly found as fossils, including:
- Trilobites
- Brachiopods
- Molluscs, including:
- Bivalves
- Ammonoids
- Gastropods
- Corals
- Echinoids
- Graptolites
You can also find a site introducing microfossils, and a site providing a basic introduction to biostratigraphy.
Explore fossils
