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The
website of Dinosaur Farm Museum, the most convenient museum
for checking your finds, and features information on some
of the more well known dinosaurs on the Island. |
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The
"official" Isle of Wight dinosaur museum's website, with
some information on dinosaurs of the island and the latest
island dinosaur news. Also has some activities for children
and information about geology, events and the girls who
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Not
the one from the book, but the BBC's online guide, which
has quite a lot on Isle of Wight Dinosaurs, possibly the
second biggest resource on the internet after DinoWight. |
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Channel
4 show that "unearthed" Caulkicephalus
material on the Isle of Wight. Also features information
from other digs. The show was a bit disappointing, but the
website's quite good, if only because DinoWight is on their
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The
people involved with the BBC dig. Note they mention that
six sites were planned, when there were only five televised,
relating to the local legend of the "Barnes High Iguanodon
bernissartensis", which was cancelled due to a disagreement
with the landowners over permission! |
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A
key-stage 2 workpack on dinosaurs, which is free to print
and use in school projects. |
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I
don't usually do adverts, but this is the page for "La
pêche du Baryonyx", of which the postface
was written by the author of DinoWight. Ooh, I'm so proud... |
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Nothing to do with this DinoWight, apart from having the same name, but a brief guide to the dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. I believe this is adapted from an article originally printed in Wightlife Magazine in 2008 (which I mentioned in my personal blog, and can be read in it's entirety HERE.) |
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Yes,
I thought that too. This is the dinosaur page for the Isle
of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society.They
claim to provide "More than factual information"
(which may be a dig at DinoWight, although someone less
restrained than myself might point out that they actually
provide less-than-factual information), and they have been
causing trouble, not least due to their appropriation of
the www.dinosaurisle.co.uk url but also creating a senior synonym for Caulkicephalus. |
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The
dinosaur section is not exhaustive, or mostly relevant,
but then this is THE museum in the UK for dinosaurs, so
it has to be here!
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Every
post made on the Dinosaur Mailing List, with answers to
questions about all sorts of dinosaur-related subjects.
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The
international dinosaur webzine read in more than 80 countries
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A
palaeo-art website, this is probably one of the best, with
lots of skeletal reconstructions and even a handy guide
to musculature!
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The
Official BBC dinosaur website, which used to have information
on "Live from Dinosaur Island", but the Isle of Wight bit
has now closed down. Still worth a look though!
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Fossils
from the UK and Fossil collecting Locations in the UK, including
where to find, how to access and what to find.
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"The
largest Ferry and Tour operator, offering the most sailings
and quickest car ferry routes to the island", so the website
says, and I agree!
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The
unofficial Isle of Wight website, with information on accommodation,
tourist areas and local businesses. DinoWight was one of
their featured sites in December 2001.
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Another
unofficial Isle of Wight website, which has some information
on local collectors and the dinosaurs, although it was written
many years ago, and misses some more recent stuff out.
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Timetables
and other stuff, to get you out to the localities, although
there is no longer a bus route to most of the south-west
coast.
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The
fastest way over to the Isle of Wight, but not the cheapest.
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Weather
website for the Isle of Wight, but you'd probably already
worked that out! Vitally important Tide
Times are available from this site!
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A
very comprehensive guide to the geology of Dorset. Also
has stuff on the Isle of Wight.
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Hampshire
County Council website, dedicated to the geology. Mentions
the Isle of Wight, and mentions the Barremian by name, which
made it stand out for me.
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The
website of the University of Bristol's Palaeofiles, of which
the Solnhofen Limestone webpage was designed by the editor
of DinoWight. Also full of useful information- give it a
look!
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A
nearly complete list of all the Mesozoic mammals known to
science, a smaller list of all the dinosaurs of Dorset and
one of the Maddest geological histories known to man, all
written by Trevor Dykes, the serial guest-book signer (See
guestbook) and friend of DinoWight.
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"A
resource for people interested in this group of fossil animals.
It is intended as a first stop source for researchers and
it will help locate information about pterosaurs". Does
exactly what it says on the tin, and has some Isle of Wight
pterosaurs, as well as a photo of the skull of Tapejara
welnhoffer, taken by the editor of DinoWight.
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This
page is a rather ambitious attempt to list all there is
to know about plesiosaurs on the internet. The genus list
is still under construction, but this site features essays
on plesiosaur feeding methods, locomotion and evolution.
As with the Pterosaur Database, this page also includes
photos, both of specimans and other interesting things,
such as plesiosaur toys. The creator of this site has contributed
to DinoWight.
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The
website of the Bristol Dinosaur Project, a project dedicated
to the preparation, preservation and study of Thecodontosaurus,
a prosauropod dinosaur found in Bristol, Somerset, and share
their knowledge and skills with the public at events in and
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Darren
Naish is probably the biggest expert on dinosaurs that I
know, and his blog is one of the best places to find out
all about news in the world of vertebrate palaeontology.
Previous topics have included Dinosauroids, Wealden Sauropods
and Bigfoot, something for everyone, although there are
a lot of posts about birds.
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Homepage
of Tracy Ford, alovely chap, an excellent artist and owner
of the largest palaeontological library of papers in the
world (probably)
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Fossil
sellers, as well as postcards, prints and other stuff. Also
a lot of information about one of the Isle of Wight's dinosaurs.
Can you guess which one?
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Website
selling palaeontological books, based on the Isle of Wight
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These
people make and sell casts of dinosaur skeletons. Run by
Octavio Matteus.
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A
website with technical stuff about geology, a geology forum
and tutorials.
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A
shop selling plesiosaur paraphenalia, books and toys. Part
of the Plesiosaur Directory
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On-line
Journals
Please
note that many of these require passwords, so unfortunately
most of you will not have access. However, if you are a
student, you may have an Athens account. Some of these are
free, but remember that they are provided only for study
purposes, and so no attempt to copy and sell them should
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The
DinoWight Yahoo Group, with a mailing list and most importantly,
papers relevant to the Isle of Wight. Requires membership,
but this is free. |
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A
fantastic collection of papers dating back centuries, includes
many of the first descriptions of Wealden Dinosaurs, including
Mantells 1825 paper on Iguanodon,
as well as more up-to-date papers. Requires Athens password.
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Up-to-date
journals, including Cretaceous Research. Requires Athens
password. |
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Up-to-date
journals, including Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Requires password. |
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Journal
of the Palaeontological Association, with quite a bit of
Isle of Wight stuff. All free |
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Journal
of the American Museum of Natural History. All free |
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An
interesting project, an interactive Earth. There will be
a "World of Dinosaurs" addition, one of the consultants
being the creator of DinoWight!
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You
can look up lots of dinosaurs on this, and find out where
they are stored, once you sort out how to use the interface.
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An
official website for the palaeontological research (or should
that be resaearch!) group at the University of Portsmouth,
in association with the Portsmouth News. Next to nothing
here, but there are some amusing games, and a 3D rotatable
wireframe stegosaur, which can provide seconds of fun.
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An
unusual site, featuring dioramas made from the various dinosaur
toys the site author has in his collection. It also has
a page dedicated to the Wealden, and there are some unusual
toys on show, including Burgess Shale fauna!
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An
excellent map site, with aerial photographs of most of the
UK. Probably not as good as Google Earth, but you don't
need to download anything to run it
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Most
dinosaur hunters love biscuits, but apparently so did dinosaurs
themselves! See "genuine" fossil dinosaur biscuits,
hear the song, and learn more! The author is a contributor
to DinoWight.
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A
lot of arty things, including a lot of dinosaurs. The author
is a contributor to DinoWight.
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Dinosaur
Art. The author is a contributor to DinoWight.
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Fairly
pointless here, but I've included it because they seem to
think DinoWight and Dinosaur
Isle are the same thing. Silly people!
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