Vertebrate Zoology
- Lecture notes on the characteristics of the Phylum Chordata and the further characteristics of the classes of animals in the Subphylum Vertebrata.
- http://www.ossm.edu/biology/vzln.htm

Biological Diversity: Animals
- Outlines the evolutionary history of animal groups from the simple coelomates to the chordates and the various vertebrate classes, with diagrams and photographs.
- http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_9.html

Skulls: Structure and Function
- Though primarily designed to protect the brain, the architecture of an animal’s skull can help scientists to deduce many of its dietary and social patterns.
- http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/structure_and_function.html

Structure and Function of Cartilage
- Technical notes on the composition, structure, function and aging of cartilage.
- http://www.nuigalway.ie/anatomy/wilkins/cartilage_structure_from_UK.pdf

Bone
- Article from Wikipedia describing the characteristics, functions and types of bone and how bone is formed.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone

The Vertebrate: Glossary
- Provides a comprehensive list of definitions of the technical terms likely to be met when studying the vertrebates.
- http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Lists/Glossary/Glossary.html

Anatomical Terms of Location
- Article from Wikipedia describing the complex terminology necessary to be used when describing the anatomy of animals in order to avoid confusion.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location

Breathing in Stegocephalians
- Most tetrapods breathe with the lungs that they inherited from their ancestors such as the coelacanth and lungfishes and this is probably also true of extinct groups of stegocephalians.
- http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=469

Life History of Stegocephalians
- Michael Laurin outlines the life history of tetrapods and extinct terrestrial vertebrates.
- http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=468

Phylogeny of Stegocephalians
- Stegocephalians are tetrapods with digits rather than fins. Michael Laurin explores the relationship between the extant and the extinct members of this group.
- http://tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=467

Hearing in Stegocephalians
- In this article, Michael Laurin outlines the anatomy and evolution of the outer, middle and inner ear in land vertebrates.
- http://tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=470

Terrestrial Vertebrates
- Describes the principle characteristics of tetrapods, which have well defined joints and digits, their classification and phylogenetic relationships.
- http://tolweb.org/Terrestrial_Vertebrates/14952

The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy
- Details of this year’s meeting of SVPCA and abstracts from presentations made in previous years.
- http://www.svpca.org/

Molecular Patterns of Sex Determination in the Animal Kingdom: a Comparative Study of the Biology of Reproduction
- Abstract from an article studying a variety of regulatory mechanisms that determine the sex of offspring in the animal kingdom.
- http://www.rbej.com/content/4/1/59

The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)
- SEB membership is open to scientists world-wide and the Animal Section is a thriving community of enthusiastic scientists working across diverse scientific groups.
- http://www.sebiology.org/Animal/pageview.asp?S=4&mid=10

The Integument
- Notes on the functions and anatomy of skin and its evolution.
- http://www.usm.maine.edu/bio/courses/bio205/08_integument.html

The Integument and its Derivatives
- These notes cover the dermis and epidermis including skin, beaks, nails, hooves, horns, hair, feathers, scales and teeth.
- http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/courses/bio204/lab5_frameset.htm

Animal Organ Systems and Homeostasis
- Homeostasis describes the physical and chemical parameters that an organism must maintain to allow proper functioning of its component cells, tissues and organs.
- http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookANIMORGSYS.html

Animal Cells and Tissues: Organization of the Animal Body
- Notes by Michael J. Farabee on the structure and functions of each of the four major animal tissue types: epithelial, muscle, connective and bone.
- http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookAnimalTS.html

Online Biology Book: Glossary
- Comprehensive list of the technical terms you are likely to come across, with cross references.
- http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookgloss.html

Chordata - Biomedia Zoology Museum
- An introduction to the taxonomy of the phylum Chordata with explanations of the technical terms used.
- http://www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/biomedia/text/txt_chord.htm

Respiratory System
- Notes on external and internal respiration, ventilation, aquatic and aerial gas exchange in all classes of vertebrate.
- http://www.uta.edu/biology/restricted/3452resp.htm

Other Animal Sounds
- Clips recorded by Doug Von Gausig of the sounds made by various amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds.
- http://www.naturesongs.com/otheranimals.html

Urochordata and Cephalochordata
- Commonly called tunicates and lancelets, these marine creatures provide important clues in the study of vertebrates.
- http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/l/clm278/index.html

Animal Diversity
- Gives the key anatomical characteristics of members of Phylum Hemichordata, Phylum Chordata and its Subphyla Urochordata, Cephalochordata and Vertebrata. Illustrated by slides.
- http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/science/biological_sciences/lab13/biolab13_3.html#Hemichordata

The Evolution of Left-Right Asymmetry in Chordates
- Article by Clive Boorman and Sebastian Shimeld discussing directional asymmetric morphology in which sidedness is fixed for a population, species or higher taxon.
- http://users.ox.ac.uk/~zool0615/My%20PDFs/BioEssays%20asymmetry%20review.pdf

Invertebrate Members of the Phylum Chordata
- Outlines the differences between the subphylum Vertebrata and the two subphyla, Urochordata and Cephalochordata.
- http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=24.25.312.314

The Vertebrates
- Notes on the classification structure of the Vertebrates with a cladogram to review the evolutionary relationships of the craniata.
- http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vertebrates.html

Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology
- Devoted to the study of terrestrial vertebrates in the Pacific northwest. Offers publications and reference data.
- http://www.snwvb.org/

Will's Skull Page
- Features images and measurements of mammalian skulls as well as updates and related links.
- http://www.skullsite.co.uk/

Infrared Zoo
- Uses infrared photography to show the differences between warm and cold blooded animals.
- http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/index.html

Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
- Educational and research resource with sections on ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology and mammalogy.
- http://cumv.bio.cornell.edu/

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
- Provides specimen data and archival materials from the collections of the University of California, Berkeley.
- http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/mvz/

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Collections
- Searchable database of specimens that includes over 50,000 tissue samples for use in molecular analyses.
- http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/collections/