Extinction

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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.