Websites
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The UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology has a great website for students trying to understand how evolution works. Please excuse the MS Paint diagrams. Public universities have limited resources.
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If you love colorful graphs talking about plant evolution, have we got the website for you. This timeline lets you see the different evolutionary events in the plant world.
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Here's an introduction to phylogenetics from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. There are a lot of words on the page, but it's a good primer if you're curious about the flakiest of all the sciences. Wait, that's phyllogenetics. Nevermind.
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Combine the words "radioactive clock" and "Cambrian explosion," and you either have the best supervillain scheme ever or an article on radiometric dating. We'll let you decide for yourself.
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Imagine combining all the wonders of Chutes and Ladders with the glory of evolution. Then add tiles like "Hop ahead one on a giant mammal" or "Chomped on by a T. rex. Lose a turn." Then call it "Evolve or Perish." Download it for free, and have the most epic board game party ever.
Images
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National Geographic is the king of awesome science-related slideshows. Check out this one with images of the Carboniferous Period.
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The only thing better than pictures of plants are pictures of really old plants, arewerite? Enjoy it in all its plant-y goodness.
Videos
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Author Michael Pollan gives a TED talk about seeing the world from a plant’s point of view. And if we really are all pawn's in corn's evil plan of world domination, we're in big trouble.
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See the transformation as plants flower, fern fronds unfurl, and David Attenborough narrates in a short clip from the BBC's Life. We really wish he would narrate our lives. It would be like living Harry Potter.
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Get up close and personal with pollen. Unless you're allergic, in which case, you're excused.