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.
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]
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,
extinction n. The act of extinguishing. The condition of being extinguished. ... For more information on extinction (of species), visit Britannica.com. ...
Jay Williams1 tells about an old woman who was living out the last days of her life. ... The rate of extinction picked up rapidly when the climate became milder and ...
In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or a ... The Permian-Triassic extinction alone killed off about 90 percent of marine ...
Extinction of animals and plants. Read scientific research on the dinosaur ... Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event ... Extinction. Fish. Frogs and Reptiles ...
... that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. ... At first glance, the physically caused extinction events of the past might seem ...