| 1. Animal Extinctions in the Fossil Record: A Developmental Paradigm |
| Article by Vaclav Petr discussing the possible causes of extinctions. |
| http://www.mprinstitute.org/vaclav/Develop.ht... |
| 2. 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. |
| http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/paleontology/exti... |
| 3. Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time |
| Covers patterns and periodicity of extinction, with discussions of major mass extinctions and minor extinction events. |
| http://park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/home... |
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| 4. Mass Extinction |
| A mathematical model for mass extinction. |
| http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/newmme/science/e... |
| 5. 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. |
| http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/impact2000/p... |
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