More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site. For an overview of what's available here at FREE, please vis
Identification Tools Glossary of Morphologic Characters Taxa (Formal and Alphabetic Listings of Families and Genera) Dynamic Search Tool for Family Faviidae Dynamic Search Tool for Family Poritidae Dynamic Search Tool for Global Revision
Like trapeze artists, spider monkeys swing through the treetops from one limb to the next, seldom touching down. But when Adelina Schutt approaches a troop at Curú Wildlife Refuge on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, the monkeys quickly drop to the gro
The first thing to remember is that each animal is an individual. Like any other pet, your ig will have a personality all its own. The basic needs are all the same, but each has its own likes and dislikes as far as certain foods, people, favorite resting
As the monitors spread across the Earth experiencing different habitats and climates they diversified. Over many millions of years this process has resulted in the emergence of at least seventy or eighty (probably many thousands of) species. Some of them
Fantasy books are filled with stories about two-headed dragons and two-headed monsters, but who has ever heard of a two-headed tortoise? This is exactly what Noël Daniels, a welder of Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa, discovered when he went
This is the site of the National Geographic News with Archaeology and Paleontology articles highlighted. There is a wide variety of recent fascinating issues with excellent graphics. This is a terrific resource for social science teachers and students o