Anza-Borrego and Southern California History
Visit the Anza-Borrego Foundation webpage for exciting interpretive offerings, explore the myriad invaluable roles the Foundation serves, and discover the many ways you may help care for this magnificent resource!
The Visitor's Center showcases the past and present Anza-Borrego. See a model of the Aiolornis incredibilis, "the incredible bird god of the winds", fossils and more. Plus the incredible Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
The Borrego Springs Chamber of Commerce presents much more information about the largest desert park in America.
http://www.sanandreasfault.org/
A website all about California's defining geological feature.
Visit the Fossil Mysteries Exhibition at the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.
Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology
Exhibits, events, and cool stuff at the Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology in Hemet.
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
Crown jewel of the Los Angeles Museums: visit ongoing exhibits, special events, and Thomas the T-Rex lab.
The Barstow Fossil Beds have long been renowned for their rich and diverse fossil record. Fossils from this site, including invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant remains, as well as fossil footprints, fill the collections os the San Bernardino County Museum and numerous other institutions.
Page Museum
Rancho La Brea is one of the world's most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world. Visitors can learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, when animals such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths roamed the Los Angeles Basin. Through windows at the Page Museum Laboratory, visitors can watch bones being cleaned and repaired. Outside the Museum, in Hancock Park, life-size replicas of several extinct mammals are featured.
As part of its mission, the Museum collects, preserves, and interprets specimens that document the natural setting of Riverside and the region around it. Plants, animals, people, and the geological setting for their activities all contribute to the study of Natural History
This unique institution is located on the beautiful campus of The Webb Schools. This is the only paleontology museum located on a high school campus in the nation. The museum mission is to serve Southern California as an educational resource, to act as a center of paleontological research for the international scientific community, and to provide a unique curricular ingredient for The Webb Schools.
University of California Museum of Paleontology
This site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. We have gathered many different resources into this single entry "portal" to paleontological information on the Internet.
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
The society is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes. The object of the society is to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology and to serve the common interests and facilitate the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals, as well as field occurrence, collection, and study of fossil vertebrates and the stratigraphy of the beds in which they are found.
Sunbelt Books
Books on Geology, paleontology, and the Anza-Borrego desert region, and more.
San Diego Association of Geologists
More publications, including field guides, for the San Diego area.
A Fossil Portal will lead you through the Pleistocene history of San Diego in the Elephant Odyssey exhibit.
Paleo News and Science Links
Palaeontologia Electronica: http://palaeo-electronica.org/
Live Science: http://www.livescience.com/
Science News Magazine: http://www.sciencenews.org/
Acta Paleontologica Polonica: http://www.app.pan.pl/home.html
BBC News/Science and Environment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/
Terra Daily News from the Planet: http://terradaily.com/
NY Times/Science: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
National Geographic Daily News: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
Public Library of Science: http://www.plos.org/
American Museum of Natural History/Paleontology: http://www.research.amnh.org/paleontology/
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History/Paleobiology: http://paleobiology.si.edu/
Scientific American/Evolutionary Biology: http://www.scientificamerican.com/evolutionary-biology
http://www.borregospringschamber.com/
Local events, news and announcements, including the new Village Guide.
http://www.visitsandiegoeast.com/
San Diego County Visitor's Bureau
Celebrate Fossils
MISSION: National Fossil Day is a celebration organized by the National Park Service to promote public awareness and stewardship of fossils, as well as to foster a greater appreciation of their scientific and educational values.