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Subdirectories of Extinction:
Categories related to Extinction : Paleontology : Earth Sciences : Science:
Science: Environment: Biodiversity (815)
Science: Environment: Climate Change: Impacts and Indicators: Animals (10)
Society: Future: Catastrophes (36)
Websites on Extinction:
Animal Extinctions in the Fossil Record: A Developmental Paradigm
Article by Vaclav Petr discussing the possible causes of extinctions.
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. [PDF]
Mass Extinction
A mathematical model for mass extinction.
Our Nemesis?
Article on a paper by David Raup and John Sepkoski, two respected paleontologists, making the remarkable claim that great catastrophes occur on the Earth every 26 million years,
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