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Australian jumping spider

pink fairies

Eskimo doll

Filipino skirt

Porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum

Water lizard fossil

Maori flax basket

Trilobites

Northwest Coast drum

Photo by Gregory C. Jensen

Striped whipsnake, Masticophis taeniatus

Blue-eyed Mary, Collinsia parviflora

Swainson's thrush eggs

Cedar-root basket

Skull of Probactrosaurus gobiensis

Pelt lichen, Peltigera sp.

Sauropod egg nest

Tlingit chief's pipe

Ivory seal carving

Columbia River petroglyph

Ocean spray, Holodiscus discolor

anglerfish

Korean alphabet

Ginkgo leaf fossil

Haida bird mask

Gateway, Maori

Halibut fish hook

Peruvian textile

Holding a specimen at Bug Blast

Links

Amphibian Resources

For distribution maps of Washington reptiles, see Washington Gap Analysis.
For a great key to identifying tadpoles, see Tadpoles of the United States and Canada: A Tutorial and Key.
Amphibia Web at the University of California, Berkeley—an excellent resource for amphibian biology and conservation
Online taxonomic reference of Amphibian Species of the World at the American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution's bibliography on the biology of amphibians and reptiles
The Tree of Life phylogeny of living amphibians.

Reptile Resources

For distribution maps of Washington reptiles, see Washington Gap Analysis.
The Smithsonian Institution's Bibliography on the biology of amphibians and reptiles
The Tree of Life phylogeny of reptiles.
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory at Heidelberg maintains the comprehensive EMBL Reptile Database.

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