Here's a website I love: http://tolweb.org/. It's the Tree of Life, scientifically accurate and properly referenced.
Under-appreciated animals
P is for Plant Defences
As the great glam metal band Poison sang in 1988, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". Like so many glam metal bands to grace the world's stages before them, none of Poison's members were botanists.  If they were, they might have known that roses actually have prickles, not thorns. It's an easy enough mistake to make.  But …
I is for Island Evolution
Unbeknownst to the rest of us, a debate has been raging in the world of biogeography.  The debate stems from a simple observation made by a young Canadian scientist in 1964: island animals are weird.  Sometimes they're way bigger than normal, like the Tenerife Giant Rat, and other times they are way smaller than normal, like …
D is for Dinosaur Evolution
When was the last time you ate dinosaur? Â I had some just the other day next to my peas and carrots. Shocking as it may seem, dinosaurs are all around us and we interact with them on a fairly regular basis. Â If you're sitting there saying to yourself, "No, dinosaurs went extinct millions of years …
Jon Farrow 