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BBC Education: The Mass Extinctions. Extinction files, mass extinctions, theories, the fossil record, FAQs, a glossary and more!
Donald L. Blanchard: Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions. 6 pages about a new model for cyclic changes in climate over geological time spans.
Britannica Online: extinction. Britannica Online contains at least 10 items relevant to this query.
California Wild: Between Extinctions. an interview with Niles Eldredge (1998).
Center for Astrobiology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: PALEONTOLOGY (Winter 2001). Lecture overheads and color slides. Go to: Lecture 7 Mass Extinction.
T. Clarke, Nature, Science Update: Chaos killed the dinosaurs. Subtle shifts in the solar system could have caused the dinosaur-devastating crash.
Susan Couch, Palaeontology Research Group, University of Bristol: Crazy Theories about Dinosaur Extinction 1850-1998.
Richard Cowen, UC Davis: Tracking the Course of Evolution (hosted by UCMP), Extinctions: Forest fires Among the Trees of Life.
Douglas H. Erwin, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Lessons from the past: Biotic recoveries from mass extinctions. Colloquium Paper, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS), USA, Vol. 98, Issue 10, 5399-5403, May 8, 2001.
! Karl W. Flessa, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson: Paleontology. Explained in a nutshell. Worth checking out: Supplementary Paleontology Lab material. Go to: Extinction, and MACROEVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION, EXTINCTIONS: PART II, EXTINCTIONS: PART III.
Christoph Heubeck, Sabine Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen Götze, Ulla and Michael Schudack, David Völker, Christoph Dobmeier, Joachim Müller, Henry Wuttke and Henriette Peters, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin: Die Erde. An introduction to Geosciences. Go to: Massenaussterbe-Events im Phanerozoikum (in German).
Ken Hooper, Virtual Paleontology Museum (HVPM), Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre and Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada (Theatres of Learning): Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time. Go to: Mass Extinctions Of The Phanerozoic Menu.
David Jablonski, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, IL: Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions. Colloquium Paper, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS), USA, Vol. 98, Issue 10, 5393-5398, May 8, 2001.
C. V. Looy1, W. A. Brugman1, D. L. Dilcher2, and H. Visscher1. 1Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University; 2Paleobotany Laboratory, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville: The delayed resurgence of equatorial forests after the Permian-Triassic ecologic crisis. PNAS Online, Vol. 96, Issue 24, 13857-13862, November 23, 1999.
Volker Mosbrugger, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Paläontologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: Tübinger Internet MultiMedia Server (timms). Go to: Natürliche Katastrophen aus evolutionsbiologischer Sicht. A video lecture. Present day natural catastrophe scenarios and its documentary in the fossil record. In German.
Stephen A. Nelson, Tulane University, New Orleans: Natural Disasters. An examination of the causes, effects, and options available to mitigate natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, subsidence, flooding, severe weather, and meteorite impacts. Go to: Meteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction.
From New Scientist, 16 August 1997: What really killed the dinosaurs?
Paul E. Olsen, Matt Gompper, and Kevin Griffin, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, Palisades, NY: The Life System Syllabus. The "Life System" component provides an integrated view of the biological component of the Earth system. It emphasizes the history of life, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity, evolution, ecology, and physiology at the microbe to global scale. It also stresses the biotic systems, in contrast to the physical systems, as maintaining the non-equilibrium state of the Earth's surface. Go to: The Life System: Lecture 8 - The Age of Dinosaurs and Major Crises in the History of Life.
Gábor Paál and Detlef Clas, Südwestrundfunk 2: Erdzeit - Wie die Welt wurde, was sie ist. Wendezeiten der Evolution: Massensterben und ihre Folgen. Easy-to-understand real audio file, online-script and references (in German). Script also available via e-mail.
Trevor Palmer: The Fall and Rise of Catastrophism. Based on a lecture given at Nottingham Trent University, 25 April 1996.
DM Raup, PNAS Online: The Role of Extinction in Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 91, 6758-6763.
Ralph E. Taggart, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology/Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing: BOT335 Lecture Schedule. K/T Boundary Impact Hypothesis.
Owen Toon, NASA Ames Research Center: Extinctions due to impacts, past and future.
Bruce Walsh, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona: Extinction. Summary notes on the phenomena of extinction.
WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc.: Evolution, Patterns of Extinction.
World Book Inc., Chicago, Illinois: How dinosaurs lived
and died,
Why did dinosaurs die out?
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