"ANYTHING!.. You can Find ANYTHING on the web!.."

...at least that's what everybody told me, and for the most part they were right. I could find rabbit stew recipes and lyrics to my favorite Connells or Trip Shakespeare songs... instructions on how to make a pipe bomb... pretty much anything... But when I went looking for information on extinct animals, I always seemed to end up zipping from site to site for hours only to come up with; "The Passengir pigin; By Brandy, Age seven".

Of course, I'm not talking about dinosaurs. You can ALWAYS find stuff on prehistoric animals. But when I went looking for more recent extinctions, what little good info I could find had to be gathered piecemeal, one sentence at a time, from all over the place...

Hence... the Hodge-Page. I have tried to stick together all of the info I could scarf together from web and library shelf and put it in one place. I'm no scientist, and not much of a writer, but I try to check my info out as good as I can for a guy sitting in his apartment. If any of you science types out there find anything where I am totally off course factually... let me know. I always welcome input. You can get in touch with me via e-mail at swarmack@aristotle.net.

The website is split in to two sections for your browsing pleasure. The first is my tribute to all the dead critters you don't know and never got a chance to love. In the beginning I started out with some pretty obvious choices but in the future I'll get to some more obscure stuff. Sometimes I go for months without updating, so for those of you who have been with me since the beginning... The "Dead Thing of the Month" is ITSELF dead. I've got plenty of stuff to add but I can't keep a regular enough schedule to be reliable as far as timing goes... Sorry.

( And now...the link. )

I actually DO sometimes take requests on dead stuff. If you have anything you would like me to try to put on the page, e-mail me. No Elvis. No Jim Morrison.

The other section to the site is for cool stuff that really doesn't fit the description of "extinct". It has stuff like White Tigers and Lions... King Cheetahs... I'm real proud of my "White Buffalo" page... Check it out.

I am a notorious thief, I admit it, but if I remember where I got a JPEG or GIF, I will link the picture to the site from which it was pirated. If I quote a book, I'll give all the info on that too. If that's not enough, and I have lifted something from your site inadvertently or otherwise, let me know... I'll give proper credit or take it out entirely.

Recently, while out surfing the WWW, I have run across a few other people starting up sites like mine. (I don't claim to be the first, but they ARE few and far between.) As I find sites like this and they get up on their feet, I will add a links page. Maybe we can even do one of those cool Webring deals for deadstuff. If you know any other extinct animals sites, please e-mail me the URL.

And finally, this web site would by no means be complete if I didn't try to make it cute by posting an annoying picture of myself.

  ...Of course, I've put on a little weight since it was made... and I've given up Easter-egg hunting completely. ( I only found stuff about once a year anyway... )

...Well...There it is... It ain't much yet, but I'm still pretty new to this computer stuff and I haven't really gone in depth into Web Page design. This program...Adobe PageMill 3.0...is fun and a heck of a lot easier than HTML, so, it may get better as I figure out what is going on. Then again, it may not. Thanks for dropping by. -S.