Here you will find resources to help educators and their students understand how changes in the Earth's climate have affected organisms throughout geologic time; understand that organisms that dominate the continents today differ from the organisms that dominated the Earth in the deep geologic past; understand that severe ecological disruptions alter the history of life, resulting in extinction followed by the evolution and appearance of new organisms; understand that newly evolved organisms develop similar body features that allow them to use the same resources as those organisms that became extinct.