Biology

Outstanding resource, the Encyclopedia of Life is an open- access, collaborative encyclopedia whose information is gathered from existing databases, from scientists and from nonscientists, to create a collection representing every living organism on Earth.

This federal website provides web access and a unified search of the government's scientific and technical information, including those in biology.

"Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. Animal Diversity Web has:

- Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy.
- Descriptions of taxa above the species level, especially phyla, classes, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare these pieces, for the most part."