I am starting this section with links to blogs and websites, and comments on them. More material—essays, guest posts?—will be added later.

• Afrotheria: http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Mammalogy/systematics/A7afrotheria.htm
  Did you know that elephants, elephant shrews, manatees, aardvarks, and golden moles, are all part of one family? Now you do!
• Hawaiian Biology: http://biology.swau.edu/faculty/petr/ftphotos/hawaii/animals.html
  Some VERY strange island biology here.
• Coleoptera: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/coleoptera.html
  Your one- stop beetle site, with links to everything else.
• Gene _Expression: http://www.gnxp.com/
  Outspoken evo- bio site
• Horse Origins: http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/anthro/olsen.html
  This will also appear in "News From Tartary",as the horse seems to have been domesticated in eastern Kazakhstan.
• Luis V. Rey's Dinosaurs: http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~luisrey/
  ...which could also be in "Art". Rey is a London- based Mexican Paleontologist and artist whose incredible recreations remind us, first, how strange dinos were; and second, how birdlike. Earth was once an alien world...
• News at Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/index.html
  What it says: breaking news.
• Northeast Science Station at Cherski: http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/fffsc/station.html
  "Pleistocene Park": a joint effort by a Russian scientist and the University of Alaska to re-create the "Mammoth Steppe".
• PLoS Biology: http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html&issn=1545-7885
  Great open- access journal -- the "Public Library of Science".
• Save the Saker: http://www.savethesaker.com/
  Good falcon science, plus Central Asia. Nick Fox is behind it.
• Steve Sailer: http://www.isteve.com/
  Human biodiversity and pungent commentary-- often very P- in- C.
• Tangled Bank: http://www.tangledbank.net/
  From Darwin's phrase; a weekly collection of biological blogs. Worth it for links alone.
• Wired Online: http://www.wired.com/wired/
  Is this science? Well, where would YOU put it? The indispensable geek resource.