See also:

• Science: Environment: Biodiversity  (834)
• Science: Environment: Climate Change: Impacts and Indicators: Animals  (12)
• Society: Future: Catastrophes  (39)

• 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.