• Old Dominion University - Office of Counseling Services  offers a number of programs and services, including dealing with time management, test anxiety, and the like. 
• My best advice to students (yes, you really should read it!) is summarized in Dr. Mom's Guide to College.
• Joe Landsberger at St. Thomas University put together this Guide to classroom success , which covers everything from note taking to studying to classroom participation.  An excellent resource!erformance.

•  UCMP Web Time Machine from UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology provides easy navigation and good background on what was happening at different times during the erath's history.
• Paleos: The Trace of Life on Earth is a comprehensive site you can browse by taxon or by geologic time period.  The Geologicic Timescale homepage is a good overview; the sections on each period have material on fossil sites, geology, climate, organisms, and more.
• American Museum of Natural History - Timelines -- decent visuals and good descriptions from the Devonian to the Pleistocene.
• Earth History and Global Paleogeographic Views of Earth History both feature excellent maps of global topography during different eras and epochs.

Evolution, Systematics, and Diversity

• Introduction to Vertebrates is the place to begin your tour through the U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology's "Virtual  Museum". A great place to get a reasonably detailed overview of vertebrate biology, this site provides excellent information on evolution, form and function, and systematics for all major vertebrate groups (among others!). Plan on spending some quality time here. 
• TheTree of Life Home Page is another outstanding set of resources, including information about vertebrates, arranged phylogenetically (so you can start at chordates and work your way out to any specific branch you choose). It contains more current information about systematic relationships than does the UCB site above, so it's a little tougher reading for the beginner. Navigating the site by using the cladograms, however, is an outstanding way to review and enhance your understanding of basic relationships among groups. The Terrestrial vertebrates page  provides an especially good overview of the characteristics of terrestrial vertebrates in relation to their emergence onto land.
• Paleos: The Trace of Life On Earth aims, according to its author, to steer a middle ground between strictly "teaching" and strictly "academic" sites.  Start with the Vertebrate Home Page and follow the links to lots of information.
• The Animal Diversity Web. The University of Michigan hosts this site with lots of photos and other cool stuff. Note that much of this material was compiled by students and exercise caution.  Check out the frog calls and other nifty materials. 

Professional Organizations 

• The American Elasmobranch Society Hompage 
• The American Ornithologists' Union 
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Primatologists 
• ASM | The American Society of Mammalogists 
• Cooper Ornithological Society
• Crocodile Specialist Group A 
• The Desert Tortoise Council 
• Herpetologists' League Home Page 
• The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation 
• Primate Center at Duke University 
• Raptor Research Foundation 
• Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 
• The Society for Marine Mammalogy
• The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 
• The Turkey Vulture Society 
• Wilson Ornithological Society 

Miscellaneous and Fun Stuff

• Prentice Hall has a website for the Pouth et al.'s Vertebrate Life  that includes a list of links by text chapter.  Browse them at Vertebrate Life, 6E .
• Vertebrates, like other groups of organisms, face a variety of conservation threats.  For general conservation information, check out my conservation page
• University of Ediacara Official Songs houses the lyrics to "It's A Long Way from Amphioxus", a classic song about our vertebrate origins. To hear the song, go to  SDHS Oral History (requires Real Player).
• Vertebrate Flight is an excellent treatment of the origins and evolution of flight, brought to you by the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. 
•  The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group has great information on raptor conservation -- check out the information on bird and bat deaths associated with wind farms.
• The Los Angeles Museum of Natural History has a great new virtual exhibit about all manner of felines -- check it out at  Cats! Wild to Mild .
• Jim Davison has a great website about conodonts, with lots of cool photos.

Lecture Materials

• Here is the Spring 2006 syllabus in case you lose yours.
• Each lecture section comes with a study guide and lecture outline.  The study guide is a critical resource for test preparation; you should download it before we begin each section and use it to guide your learning and study.  The lecture outlines are the ones I use for lecture; they are not the final word on the material you're responsible for, nor are they a substitute for attending class.  You are responsible for all material covered in lecture, regardless of whether or not it's included in the printed outlines.  PowerPoint handouts are available only on the course Blackboard site due to copyright issues. New sections will be added as they are developed.
• Section 1: Introduction and Background.  Study Guide; Lecture Outline
• Section 2: Vertebrate Relationships, Structure and Function. Study Guide; Lecture Outline
• Section 3: Vertebrate Origins and Early Radiations.  Study Guide; Lecture Outline
• Section 4: The Chondrichthyes.  Study Guide; Lecture Outline