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	Infrared Zoo URL: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/index.html ODP description: Uses infrared photography to show the differences between warm and cold blooded animals.
	Online Biology Book: Glossary URL: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookgloss.html ODP description: Comprehensive list of the technical terms you are likely to come across, with cross references. Page title: GLOSSARY Main
	The Vertebrate: Glossary URL: http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Lists/Glossary/Glossary.html ODP description: Provides a comprehensive list of definitions of the technical terms likely to be met when studying the vertrebates. Page title: Palaeos Vertebrates: Glossary A
	The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) URL: http://www.sebiology.org/ ODP description: SEB membership is open to scientists world-wide and the Animal Section is a thriving community of enthusiastic scientists working across diverse scientific fields.
	Hearing in Stegocephalians URL: http://tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=470 ODP description: In this article, Michael Laurin outlines the anatomy and evolution of the outer, middle and inner ear in land vertebrates.
	The Integument and its Derivatives URL: http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/courses/bio204/lab5_frameset.htm ODP description: These notes cover the dermis and epidermis including skin, beaks, nails, hooves, horns, hair, feathers, scales and teeth. Page title: Integument
	Invertebrate Members of the Phylum Chordata URL: http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=24.25.312.314 ODP description: Outlines the differences between the subphylum Vertebrata and the two subphyla, Urochordata and Cephalochordata. Page title: Natural History Collections: Invertebrate Chordates
	Biological Diversity: Animals URL: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_9.html ODP description: Outlines the evolutionary history of animal groups from the simple coelomates to the chordates and the various vertebrate classes, with diagrams and photographs. Page title: Biological Diversity 9
	Cardiovascular System: The Heart and Vessels URL: http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=15&cat=1829&articleid=2951 ODP description: Outlines the function of this system, its anatomy and physiology, and compares the mammalian organs with those of birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish. Page title: Cardiovascular System: The Heart and Vessels of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Amphibians Page description: The cardiovascular system employs the heart and blood vessels essential to the constant supply of oxygen and life-sustaining nutrients needed for life of all living animals.
	Breathing in Stegocephalians URL: http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=469 ODP description: 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.
	Other Animal Sounds URL: http://www.naturesongs.com/otheranimals.html ODP description: Clips recorded by Doug Von Gausig of the sounds made by various amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds.
	The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy URL: http://www.svpca.org/ ODP description: Details of this yearâ€™s meeting of SVPCA and abstracts from presentations made in previous years.
	Chordata URL: http://www.bumblebee.org/invertebrates/CHORDATA.htm ODP description: Information on the invertebrate members of the phylum Chordata, what they have in common, and the characteristics of the two subphyla, Urochordata and Cephalochordata. Page title: CHORDATA Page description: CHORDATA taxonomy, physiology, and body pattern.
	Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net URL: http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html ODP description: Provides an index to animal sounds on the Web including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects.
	Tissue Engineering URL: http://www.nuigalway.ie/anatomy/tissue_engineering.html ODP description: Describes research at the National University of Ireland, Galway into developing methods of constructing organs in the laboratory that can subsequently be used in medical applications. Page title: Anatomy - About Tissue Engineering Page description: Welcome to the Department of Anatomy
	Bird Skull Collection URL: http://www.skullsite.co.uk/ ODP description: Images and data about skulls of western Palearctic and Tropical species, with complete skeletons of some species. Page title: WILL'S SKULL PAGE - HOMEPAGE
	Bone URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone ODP description: Article from Wikipedia describing the characteristics, functions and types of bone and how bone is formed. Page title: Bone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Animal Cells and Tissues: Organization of the Animal Body URL: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookAnimalTS.html ODP description: Notes by Michael J. Farabee on the structure and functions of each of the four major animal tissue types: epithelial, muscle, connective and bone. Page title: ANIMAL TS TYPES
	Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology URL: http://www.snwvb.org/ ODP description: Devoted to the study of terrestrial vertebrates in the Pacific northwest. Offers publications and reference data. Page title: SNVB Webpage
	Phylogeny of Stegocephalians URL: http://tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=467 ODP description: Stegocephalians are tetrapods with digits rather than fins. Michael Laurin explores the relationship between the extant and the extinct members of this group.