Directorios

ZOOLOGÍA

 

	Schreber's Fantastic Beasts
		Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. «In 1774 Johann Christian Dan Schreber authored a multivolume set of books entitled Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Focusing on mammals of the world, these books were lavishly illustrated with 755 hand-colored plates. There was a slight problem though: in most instances the artists had never seen the animals they were rendering onto paper. Explorers would return from their travels and describe the animals in question to the artists. The end result was that some of the drawings, though representing real animals, looked more like they had come from someone's nightmares. Above each picture is the original scientific name attributed to the animal as it appeared in Schreber's work. We've added the current common name and some other information, in case you might be wondering exactly what are these beasts. Click on any of the beasts for a higher resolution image and a description.» Alemania EEUU - inglés

	Seamobile: Explore the Ocean's Depths
		Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. «The Seamobile website recreates the investigation experienced by students on board the Seamobile, a unique outreach program developed by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Through this program, students become marine scientists and dive beneath the southern California coast, observing different habitats and collecting data on the different species that live there.» EEUU - inglés

	Seaside Live: Marine Ecology and Related Issues
		Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. Virtual Museum Canada. «Enjoy games and 3D animations with this virtual exploration of fish, the ocean and the coastal marine environment in Atlantic Canada.» Canadá

	Sharks: Fact & Fantasy
		Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. «...the largest and most comprehensive exhibit about sharks ever mounted. The exhibit is designed to encourage visitors to actively participate and have fun while learning and was made possible by the generous support of the National Science Foundation.» «Sharks: Fact and Fantasy presents information on shark diversity, fossil history, general biology including anatomy, senses, behavior and reproduction. Sections devoted to human and shark interactions include shark attack, sharks and human culture, shark products, and shark management and conservation.» EEUU - inglés

	The Birds Site
		Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. «Birds belong to the Class Aves in the Kingdom Animalia. Birds are the only animals that have feathers and all birds have feathers. Other characteristics of modern birds include: forelimbs modified into wings, no teeth, scales on the feet, a four chambered heart, egg-laying, clavicles (collar bones) united as furculum (or wishbone) and warm-bloodedness. Scientists have divided the Class Aves into around 25 to 30 orders. Each order is subdivided into families of related genera and species (kinds). Scientists group birds together by searching for common structural characteristics of their anatomy and similarities in the genetic material.» EEUU - inglés

	The Birds of Manitoba
		The Manitoba Museum. «Bird Checklists of hotspots, habitat regions, and an alphabetical bird list. With links to species accounts.» Canadá

	The Butterfly Conservatory
		American Museum of Natural History. «Butterflies and moths make up a large group of insects known as the Order Lepidoptera (lep-i-DOP-ter-ah). The name -- from the Greek lepido, "scale", and ptera, "wings" -- refers to a prominent feature of adult butterflies and moths, the tiny scales that cover the wings and the rest of the body. Adult butterflies are wonderfully diverse in shape, size, and color. Active during the day, they live almost everywhere around the world, from Arctic tundra to tropical rain forests. There are more than 250,000 known species of Lepidoptera, of which about 18,000 are butterflies. Based on their anatomy, butterflies are classified into five families.» EEUU - inglés

	The Robot Zoo
		The Tech Museum of Innovation. «...reveals the biomechanics of giant robot animals to illustrate how real animals work. Nature's engineering and human technology converge in this exciting exhibit, which features giant robot animals and more than a dozen hands-on activities!» EEUU - inglés

	The Zoology of Profesor Struthers
		Zoology Museum. University of Aberdeen, Department of Zoology. «In 1883, he was also appointed Aberdeen University member of the recently established General Medical Council, and was later elected chairman of their education committee, and had a profound influence on medical education in the United Kingdom. It was on his initiative that the council endorsed the motion to extend the course of study for a medical qualification from four years, which was then common, to at least five years, and introduced proposal to strengthen clinical training.» Rusia

	Traits of Life
		Exploratorium. The museum of science, art and human perception. «Variety is the spice of life—or is it? Earth hosts millions of species in myriad forms—a fraction of all that have gone before—but this riotous diversity masks an underlying unity. Woodpecker and tree, ant and elephant, bacterium and human—deep down, we’re all alike. Our methods may vary, but we all use energy and reproduce. As species, we all evolve. And we’re all made of the same ingredients—cells. Cells connect us not just to each other but to a common ancestor. We’re all ultimately variations on an ancient recipe, passed on from generation to generation since life sputtered out of a primordial soup.» EEUU - inglés

	University Museum of Zoology Cambridge
		«The museum houses an extensive collection of scientifically important zoological material designated as being of outstanding national and international significance.» «The Museum aims to make its specimen catalogues as widely available as possible to people worldwide. Over the past couple of years, we have been transcribing our records - many of which were handwritten in the mid-nineteenth century - onto searchable databases which will be accessible through the internet.» Reino Unido

	Vietnam
		Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. «Researchers at the Natural History Museum spend a good part of their time in the field, collecting specimens and conducting field studies to gain a better understanding of their research area and hopefully make many new discoveries. In fall of 2001, scientists from our herpetology, mammalogy, and polychaete (marine worms) departments together with a museum educator, set off on a research expedition to Vietnam -- into the forests and rivers in order to better understand the diversity of life in our world. Join us on our expedition! Learn a little bit about Vietnam the country, the process of field research miles away from home, and the discoveries that we made.» EEUU - inglés Vietnam

	Virtual Exhibit on Canada's Biodiversity: Focus on Amphibians
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Amphibians are a unique evolutionary group of species. Poised historically at the beginnings of vertebrate life on land, between fish and reptiles, they are uniquely adapted to live in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.» Canadá

	Virtual Exhibit on Canada's Biodiversity: Focus on Insects
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Insects belong to the subphylum Uniramia which also includes millipedes and centipedes, the closest related organisms to insects. This subphylum is part of the larger Arthropoda phylum in which there are also spiders and crustaceans such as lobsters, shrimp and crayfish. Trilobites were an important group of early arthropods that have been extinct for 250 million years. All arthropods have an exoskeleton, paired and jointed appendages, segmented bodies and an open circulatory system. Finally, insects belong to the Kingdom Animalia. Kingdom is the largest and most inclusive unit of classification. There are five Kingdoms altogether which include all living organisms, Monera, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Animalia.» Canadá

	Western Canadian Migratory Bird Sanctuaries on the Web
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. Canadá

	Wild-Eyed Alaska
		Howard Hughes Medical Institute. «Imagine watching a bald eagle close up. Or joining a puffin inside its burrow. Or plunging over rocky cliffs into the water to gaze at giant barnacles and other sea life. Now you can do all this and more — virtually. An HHMI grant enabled the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska, to place several video cameras on nearby Gull Island in Kachemak Bay. Soon the birds on the island became accustomed to their electronic companions, even as students and other visitors controlled the cameras remotely from the museum. You can check out the action, too, in six video clips that bring Alaska to your computer.» EEUU - inglés

	Zoology
		The Hunterian. University of Glasgow. Animal Architecture. Birds. Corals. Insects. Invertebrates. Mammals. Reptile, Amphibians, Fish. Reino Unido

	Zoology Museum
		University of Aberdeen. Reino Unido

	Zoology Museum
		University of Dundee. «The Zoology Museum houses many fascinating species from around the world. Much of it was collected by the celebrated Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the first Professor of Biology at Dundee.» Reino Unido

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