Beesker recommends 'UCMP Berkeley' as the world's
best website on dinosaurs
ABOUT 'UCMP BERKELEY'
The
UCMP Berkeley
is the University of California Museum of Paleontology, part of the Berkeley
Natural History Museums, which is itself part of the University of California at
Berkeley. The mission of the UCMP Berkeley is to carry out research and
education which promotes the understanding of the history of life and the
diversity of the Earth's biota.
The UCMP Berkeley website has a substantial section on dinosaurs. It is
organized into the following main sections: Dinosaur Fossil Record, Life History
& Ecology of Dinosaurs, Systematics, and Dinosaur Morphology.
Other sections answer popular questions about dinosaurs, including: Are birds
really dinosaurs?, What killed the dinosaurs?, Were dinosaurs hot-blooded or
cold-blooded?, Can we infer the possible speeds of dinosaurs?, and Is what the
movies tell us about dinosaurs true?
There is an online exhibition about Tyrannosaurus Rex, and an Audio Tour about
the discovery and reconstruction of Dilophosaurus from the discoverer of that
dinosaur, the late Sam Welles.