Animal Diversity Web

The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a non-profit online database site that collects natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on species of animals. The website includes photographs, sound clips, and a virtual museum.

The website uses a local, relational database written by staff and student contributors from the University of Michigan. The website has a virtual museum, containing mostly mammals and a collection of skulls that can be virtually handled, as wells as a cell phone app. It is mostly written by college students and also provides resources for K–12 instructors. The ADW markets itself as a resource for constructing scholarly documents.