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Josef Hlaseks Photo Pages
A lot of beautiful photos among which a decent number of macro photos of water animals.

Nature photography by Dragiša Savić
Hundreds of beatiful photos, a great many of beetle pictures and some water animals.

the Beetle Gallery of www.eakringbirds.com
Large gallery, mostly landbeetles, but some waterbeetles as well.

Marek R. Swadzbas European Insects
Many insect species, neatly arranged in vast galleries. Many links to other insect photo sites. (German language)

Victor Bos Photo Pages
are beautiful as well, you can add your own comment at some of the pictures.

The Canadian naturephotographer Website of Robert Berdan, a professional nature photographer. Lots of beautiful photos, from the sky-wide Northern Lights to microscopic creatures.

libretexts.org offers educative materials for teachers and enthousiasts alike. Not just on biology, but many other subjects. Started in 2021.

MICROSCOPY

Awesome Electron Microscope Photos by Dennis Kunkel
These galleries you have to see, many of the pictures are colorized to give stunning results.

Micrographia.com
A website about the microscope, how to use it (illumination, micro photos and more) and with nice photos of several groups of the smallest water animals.

Mikroskopisches Kollegium Bonn An interesting (German) site with many interesting articles and photos.

German-language forum mikroskopie-forum.de Lots of exchange of experiences and beautiful photos.

It Came from the Pond Do-It-Yourself Protistology, Bruce Taylor.
Nice, amusing site on microscopic animals, with short movies and drawings. Enthusiastically and humorously described.

Life in water (Plingfactory.de) Many beautiful DIC-microscopy photos of micro-organisms, a species database with digital photos is being worked on. Mainly rotifers.

Real Micro Life, website of Dr. Martin Kreutz, a passionate microscopist. A wealth of astonoshing and beautiful DIC-microscopy photos of all kinds of micro-organisms, often with background information and a short history of the subject.
Also worth looking up: his Gesammelte werke on mikroskopie-forum.de. (his contributions to that forum)

LITERATURE (digitized)

BHL - Biodiversity Heritage Library.
A treasure trove of digitized beautiful old books that can be read and downloaded.

Internet Archive.
Millions of digitized books.

GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The site to search for species names and information about them.

SUB - Göttinger Digitaliserungszentrum
Very extensive. General historical works.

Animalbase.org.
Good portal search site for digitized literature

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Some links to more specific animals or subjects are on the pages about them.

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