Similarly, you can read introductions to the roughly three dozen animal phyla, though GeoZoo focuses primarily on the phylum Chordata. It especially focuses on the subphylum Vertebrata, which includes seven classes of animals:

But GeoZoo also includes some information about invertebrates, especially insects, arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks and some other marine invertebrates.

You can search the Life section for information about particular species, families, orders, etc. The stacks are complemented by articles about distribution, diet, behavior and other Topics, along with a Reference, which includes an Animal Glossary. You may also be interested in the World section or the Animals Calendar.

And remember — just about every article on this site comes in two flavors, adults and children.

I hope you enjoy GeoZoo (preferably using the fabulous Firefox browser). More important, I hope you learn from it. I also hope you will be inspired to get involved politically. For animals have never been more threatened, and we can never fix problems like global warming until we defeat corporate corruption. To put it another way, we’ll never save the rainforest if we can’t even reform the school board in our own backyard.