See also:

• Science: Environment: Biodiversity  (1,003)
• Science: Environment: Global Change: Impacts and Indicators: Animals  (16)
• Society: Future: Catastrophes  (44)

BBC Extinction Files - - Broad, non-technical coverage of the whole field; a good introductory work. Includes mass extinctions, theories, the fossil record, FAQs, and a glossary.

Extinction - - A number of extinction concepts are discussed and loosely defined, followed by a survey of some important extinction and "extinction-like" events, primarily from the Phanerozoic.

Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time - - Covers patterns and periodicity of extinction, with discussions of major mass extinctions and minor extinction events.

The Late Devonian Mass Extinction - - A professional technical paper discussing whether the Late Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian) mass extinction was initiated by an extraterrestrial impact or an earth-bound event.

Mass Extinction - - A mathematical model for mass extinction.

Phanerozoic Extinctions - - Fully referenced BSc honours project on the History of Mass Extinctions with special reference to the proposed sixth extinction taking place at the present time.