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3D Scan of Tiktaalik Fossil – Humerus

3D Models

3D-scans of fossil bones of Tiktaalik, a creature with a mix of features common to fish and tetrapods.
3D Scan of Tiktaalik Fossil – Pelvis

3D Models

3D-scans of fossil bones of Tiktaalik, a creature with a mix of features common to fish and tetrapods.
3D Scan of Tiktaalik Fossil – Pectoral Fin

3D Models

3D-scans of fossil bones of Tiktaalik, a creature with a mix of features common to fish and tetrapods.
3D Scan of Tiktaalik Fossil – Body

3D Models

3D-scans of fossil bones of Tiktaalik, a creature with a mix of features common to fish and tetrapods.
3D Scan of Tiktaalik Fossil – Skull

3D Models

3D-scans of fossil bones of Tiktaalik, a creature with a mix of features common to fish and tetrapods.
EarthViewer

Click & Learn

Download the accompanying student worksheet under "Downloads." What did Earth look like 250 million years ago? Or 1 billion years ago? Or 4.5 billion years ago? EarthViewer is an interactive tool that allows you to explore the science of Earth's deep history.
Written in Chalk

Phenomenal Images

Students explore photos of chalk formations and coccolithophore algae as phenomena to explore the interplay between biological and geological processes.
Animated Life: The Living Fossil Fish

Animated Shorts

(7 min 18 sec) This animated short film tells the engaging tale of the discovery of the coelacanth.
Animated Life

Collection

These five short films, produced in conjunction with The New York Times, bring to life five historical scientific discoveries and the people behind them: Alfred Russel Wallace and his contribution to...
Mass Extinctions Interactive

Click & Learn

Discover the environmental factors that caused the five big mass extinctions in Earth’s history and which species they impacted.
Mesozoic Film with Quiz

Interactive Videos

(33 min 43 sec) Embedded quiz modules test students’ understanding as they watch the short film on the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Animated Life: Pangea

Animated Shorts

(7 min 36 sec) This animated short video celebrates the early 20th-century German astronomer and atmospheric scientist Alfred Wegener, who first proposed that continents once formed a single landmass and had drifted apart.
Dodging Extinction

Science Talks

(31 min 12 sec) What steps can be taken to avoid the sixth mass extinction?
The Anthropocene: Human Impact on the Environment

Click & Learn

Explore key human impacts on the environment and how they have affected Earth’s landscape, ocean, atmosphere, and biodiversity with this engaging interactive.
Extinctions

Collection

BioInteractive provides free classroom resources on subjects ranging from evolution to human health to the workings of the biosphere. We are pleased to offer educators materials to help you use...
Anthony Barnosky and Kaitlin Maguire Measure Mammal Extinctions at the John Day Fossil Beds

Scientists at Work

(9 min 15 sec) Prehistoric extinction rates are calculated from fossil data in a paleodatabase and compared to today’s extinction rate.
Biodiversity in the Age of Humans

Science Talks

Are we witnessing a sixth mass extinction? What factors threaten ecosystems on land and in the sea? What are researchers doing to try to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems?
Great Transitions Interactive

Click & Learn

The fossils of transitional creatures were key evidence for Darwin’s evolutionary theory, but none had been found when he published On the Origin of Species. Now, there are many examples of such fossils, which clearly show that big evolutionary leaps consist of many smaller steps.
Film Guides: The Origin of Tetrapods

Film Activities

The following classroom-ready resources complement Great Transitions: The Origin of Tetrapods, which tells the story of the discovery of Tiktaalik, a creature with features common to fish and four-legged animals, or tetrapods.
Finding the Crater

Card Activities

This hands-on activity requires students to “visit” different K-T boundary sites.