See also:

• Science: Environment: Biodiversity  (930)
• Science: Environment: Global Change: Impacts and Indicators: Animals  (13)
• Society: Future: Catastrophes  (41)

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..