Anatomical Terms of Location «
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location | | Article from wikipedia describing the complex terminology necessary to be used when describing the anatomy of animals in order to avoid confusion. |
Animal Cells and Tissues: Organization of the Animal Body «
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookAnimalTS.html | | Notes by michael j. farabee on the structure and functions of each of the four major animal tissue types: epithelial , muscle , connective and bone. |
Animal Diversity «
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/science/biological_sciences/lab13/biolab13_3.html#Hemichordata | | Gives the key anatomical characteristics of members of phylum hemichordata , phylum chordata and its subphyla urochordata , cephalochordata and vertebrata. illustrated by slides. |
Animal Organ Systems and Homeostasis «
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookANIMORGSYS.html | | Homeostasis describes the physical and chemical parameters that an organism must maintain to allow proper functioning of its component cells , tissues and organs. |
Auburn University - Comparative Anatomy «
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/zy/0301/comparative_home/comparative_home.html | | Lecture notes on the digestive , circulatory , respiratory , urogenital and nervous systems in vertebrates , and also the muscles , limbs , skeleton and integument. |
Bone «
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone | | Article from wikipedia describing the characteristics , functions and types of bone and how bone is formed. |
Breathing in Stegocephalians «
http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=469 | | Most tetrapods breathe with the lungs that they inherited from their ancestors such as the coelacanth and lungfishes and this is probably also true of extinct groups of stegocephalians. |
Chordata - Biomedia Zoology Museum «
http://www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/biomedia/text/txt_chord.htm | | An introduction to the taxonomy of the phylum chordata with explanations of the technical terms used. |
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates «
http://cumv.bio.cornell.edu/ | | Educational and research resource with sections on ichthyology , herpetology , ornithology and mammalogy. |
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net «
http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html | | Provides an index to animal sounds on the web including birds , mammals , reptiles , amphibians , fish and insects. |
Hearing in Stegocephalians «
http://tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=470 | | In this article , michael laurin outlines the anatomy and evolution of the outer , middle and inner ear in land vertebrates. |
Infrared Zoo «
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/index.html | | Uses infrared photography to show the differences between warm and cold blooded animals. |
Invertebrate Members of the Phylum Chordata «
http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=24.25.312.314 | | Outlines the differences between the subphylum vertebrata and the two subphyla , urochordata and cephalochordata. |
Life History of Stegocephalians «
http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=468 | | Michael laurin outlines the life history of tetrapods and extinct terrestrial vertebrates. |
Molecular Patterns of Sex Determination in the Animal Kingdom: a Comparative Study of the Biology of Reproduction «
http://www.rbej.com/content/4/1/59 | | Abstract from an article studying a variety of regulatory mechanisms that determine the sex of offspring in the animal kingdom. |
