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Extinction (biology)
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Alvarez, Walter. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. Princeton University Press, 1997, Vintage, 1998. Engaging presentation of the leading theory of dinosaur mass extinction due to asteroid impacts.
Behm, Barbara J., and Jean-Christophe Balouet. Extinct Wildlife. Gareth Stevens, 1997. Explains the causes of extinction, provides examples, and suggests achievable solutions. For younger readers.
Courtillot, Vincent. Joe McClinton, trans.  Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Explores catastrophic volcanic activity as a cause of mass extinctions.
Hecht, Jeff. Vanishing Life: The Mystery of Mass Extinctions. Simon & Schuster, 1993. Chronicles mass extinctions from the time of the dinosaurs through that of the dodo and discusses topics such as geology, paleontology, asteroid and comet impacts, volcanoes, and humans incursion; with illustrations and photographs. For young adult readers.
Leakey, Richard E., and Roger Lewin. The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind. Anchor, 1996. Examines mass extinctions and discusses how the human species may be the first to cause its own distruction.
McClung, Robert M., and Bob Hines. Lost Wild America: The Story of Our Extinct and Vanishing Wildlife. Shoe String, 1993. An inventory and story of the species that have vanished from North America.
Powell, James Lawrence. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs. Harvest, 1999. Support for the theory that an asteroid caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
Stearns, Beverly Peterson, and Stephen C. Stearns. Watching, from the Edge of Extinction. Yale University Press, 1999. Describes current efforts to fend off the extinction of some of the world's most endangered species.
Tattersall, Ian. The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of our Closest Human Relatives. Rev. ed. Westview, 1999. A noted paleontologist examines one of the mysteries of human evolution
Vergoth, Karin, and Christopher Lampton. Endangered Species. Rev. ed. Franklin Watts, 1999. Introductory work that offers conservation tips. For middle school and high school readers.
Ward, Peter D. The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why Ice Age Mammals Disappeared. Copernicus, 1997. By a practicing paleontologist.
For younger readers
Facklam, Margery. And Then There Was One: The Mysteries of Extinction. Little, Brown, 1990, 1993. For readers in grades 4 to 6.
Hecht, Jeff. Vanishing Life: The Mystery of Mass Extinctions. Scribner, 1993. For readers in grades 7 through high school.
Lessem, Don. Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals. Scholastic, 1999. For readers in grades 4 to 7.
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