Want to learn about critters and living things? DNR's Fun Facts gives you cool cards, fact sheets and pictures for fun! Teach your parents what you have learned about Maryland's Natural Resources.
Animal Bits
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/animalbits.html
Interesting fact sheets found on the DNR web site covering a wide variety of animals you can find in Maryland. If you have ever wondered where the animals live, what they eat or look like, then this is the web site for you. Information covers basic animal characteristics ahd habitat as well as interesting facts. A new animal bit is added every month.
Bay Game
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/baygame/index.html
Marylandˇ¦s Bay Game is back and better than ever with all new games and sites making traveling to the beach educational and fun for the whole family. Marylandˇ¦s free Bay Game, the first of its type in the country, is designed to be played from the back seat of a car while riding to Marylandˇ¦s beaches along MD Routes 50 and 404 on the Eastern Shore.
Big Tree Champions
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/trees/bigtree.html
Explore Maryland for our biggest and best trees. Many different tree species are listed.
Chesapeake and Coastal Bay Life
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/cblife/index.html
All you wanted to know about life in the Bays from phytoplankton to aquatic insects to the various species that live in the Chesapeake and coastal bays.
Chesapeake Bay Word Search
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/education/wordsearch.html
A free word search game that will teach you Chesapeake Bay vocabulary. You can print this out and have some real fun.
Fish Facts
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/education/fishfaqs.html
A collection of information about the wide varitey of fish you can find in the state of Maryland. To the right are listings of fish and aquatic life that we have information available about. The individual fact sheets will give you information about where you could find the organism, what they eat, breeding patterns and identification information.
Miocene Sharks Teeth of Calvert County
http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/brochures/sharks.html
Fossil shark's teeth (about 17 million years old) can be found in sediments known to geologists as the Calvert Formation of early to middle Miocene age. Sharks teeth from the Calvert Formation are often well-preserved and sometimes quite large. This DNR Maryland Geological Survey web page provides information about the ancient sharks and other sea life of the Miocene and ideas about why sharks teeth are common in these sediments. (The National Science Teachers Association selected this web page for inclusion in their sciLINKS program.)
Official State Dinosaur
http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/fs/fs12.html
In 1998, Astrodon johnstoni became the Maryland State Dinosaur. DNR Maryland Geological Survey Fact Sheet 12 (free on the web) provides a brief history about the discoveries of the dinosaur bones and teeth and summarizes the information that these fossilized remains provided to scientists about the dinosaur, including what it may have looked like.
Official State Fossil Shell
http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/fs/fs6.html
The Maryland State Fossil Shell is a type of extinct snail (gastropod) which paleontologists have formally named: Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae Wilson. Information on the discovery of the fossil, how it got its name and when it lived are provided in DNR Maryland Geological Survey Fact Sheet 6 (free on the web).
Updated January 5, 2005