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Web resources: Paleontology, Evolution, Computers

Paleo on the web. Great places to look up fossils, reconstructions of fossil organisms, and information on specific time periods are :
Data base use in paleontology: go to this section of the web page of the Natural History Museum in London (UK).
Many paleo-sites (academic and commercial) are in PALEO-RING.
PBS/NOVA program: The Missing Link (vertebrate limb evolution). Website
Paleontological art work
Paleo-environmental reconstructions
Computational paleontology
Use of mathematics to describe biological morphology.
Moving continents, and a site with settings for the North American continent.
Not for the faint-hearted: the Kheper site. Everything whatever vaguely, linked to the word 'evolution'. The information on biological evolution (in as far as I checked) is great and up-to-date; judge yourself about the philosophy and religion and social sciences and astronomy and......