Websites, Societies and Clubs

Websites for identification and fossil hunting localities

Some Palaeontological Websites...

There are thousands of websites dealing with rocks and fossils, and it can be very difficult for anyone new to the subject to know which ones are factually correct and which ones are misleading. The phrase ‘don’t believe everything you read on the web’ is very true!

Listed below are some very good websites for children and adults alike who are wanting to get involved in palaeontology. Some of the websites are based all around good fossil hunting sites etc...

www.rockwatch.org.uk	Children’s club for rocks and fossils
www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/fossils	Natural History Museum’s portal for fossils
www.whitbymuseum.org.uk	Great Museum for fossil collections and reference
www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/fossils	Oxford Universities fossil portal (great for adults and children)
www.sedgwickmuseum.org	Cambridge based museum (great for adults and children)
www.dinocoast.org.uk	All about East Yorkshire coast geology and fossils
www.open2.net/fossildetectives/index.html	the British Geological Survey. Information, advice and research facilities
www.bgs.ac.uk
www.zoomdinosaurs.com	a great general site about dinosaurs
www.museumoftheearth.org	website of the Palaeontological Research Institution
www.discoveringfossils.co.uk	portal for everything you need to know about fossils
www.ukfossils.co.uk	portal for everything you need to know about fossils

Societies and Clubs

[T]here are many societies and clubs in the world dedicated to palaeontology and all that surrounds the prehistoric world, here are some well known sites you can join...

• List 1:
  • 1, Rock Watch (Children’s club) -
    www.rockwatch.org.uk
    
    Rock Watch is an internet subscription club for children interested in rocks and fossils
  
  
  
• List 2:
  
  
  • 1, The Yorkshire Geological Society - www.yorksgeolsoc.org.uk
  • 2, Hull Geological Society -
    www.hullgeolsoc.org.uk
    
    
  • 3, Leeds Geological Association -
    www.leedsgeolassoc.freeserve.co.uk
    
    These three Geological societies are the perfect place for beginners and enthusiasts to get involved in the world of geology and palaeontology. There is many more clubs around the U.K. which have similar interests this is just a select few.
  
  
  
• List 3:
  
  
  • 1, The Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology -
    www.vertpaleo.org
    
    
  • 2, The Palaeontological Association -
    www.palass.org
    
    
  • 3, The Association of Applied Palaeontological Sciences -
    www.aaps.net
    
    
  • 4, The Palaeontological Society -
    www.paleosoc.org
    
    These are major (International) scholarly societies, and are really only recommended for the serious enthusiast, who has a developed knowledge of the subject.

And Creationism?

[Added by Hans-Georg Lundahl, probably including some of the reasons the palaeocritti team before recommending links above wrote: "The phrase ‘don’t believe everything you read on the web’ is very true!"]

Daylight Origins Society
Catholic creation & origins science
www.daylightorigins.com/

The Kolbe Center
for the study of Creation
www.kolbecenter.org/

Magisterial Fundies
magisterialfundies.blogspot.com

Creation Ministries International
creation.com/

Institute for Creation Research
www.icr.org/

Tas Walker's Biblical Geology

www.biblicalgeology.net/

AND:

Creation vs. Evolution
[My own]
creavsevolu.blogspot.com

Which has taken a palaeontological turn with messages like:

Three Meanings of Chronological Labels
creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2013/12/three-meanings-of-chronological-labels.html

and the series starting with

How do Fossils Superpose?
creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-do-fossils-superpose.html

I do not know which of the Creationist sites which will be most relevant for a Christian Creationist specifically interested in Palaeontology. I intend to make my own blog a runner up. And that is why I came across the site ...

palaeocritti
www.palaeocritti.com

... in the first place. Which to my dismay will be closing in 2016, which is the reason I was given permission to make a back-up blog by Nobu Tamura.

Merry Christmas to the original team, especially Nobu Tamura,

from
Hans-Georg Lundahl