Museum Victoria now has two websites devoted to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

The new Prehistoric Life website presents information and images on the general topics of What is a Fossil?, Life through Time, Dinosaurs and Ice Age Mammals, together with an overview of our local Victorian Fossils.

If you are interested in more detailed information about a range of palaeontological topics or teaching about fossils, you should remain where you are—the Dinosaurs and Fossils website. This site presents a number of essays prepared by Museum Victoria scientists, together with education materials.

The essays are grouped under these headings:

• Time
• Fossils and the Scientific Process
• Life through Time
• Evolutionary Milestones
• Extinctions

Additional sections provide information and resources of interest to teachers and parents of students studying fossils:

• Why Study Dinosaurs and Other Fossils? includes links to curriculum areas.
• Fossil Activities includes student guides for use at Melbourne Museum, and individual and class projects for use at school or home.
• Fossils Glossary lists definitions for the palaeontological terms used on this website.
• Further Research lists relevant Websites, Books, Kits, Posters, Videos and CD-ROMs.