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See also:
- Science: Environment: Biodiversity (817)
- Science: Environment: Climate Change: Impacts and Indicators: Animals (11)
- Society: Future: Catastrophes (38)
- 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.

