Extinction, in biology and palaeontology, is the end of a species or other taxon.

Extinction may also refer to:

Science

  • Mass extinction, or extinction event, a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth
  • Human extinction (end of the human species)
  • Language extinction, or language death
  • Extinction (another word for attenuation), in physical sciences
  • Extinction coefficient (another term for mass attenuation coefficient), in physical sciences
  • Extinction (astronomy)
  • Extinction (optical mineralogy), when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral in a petrographic microscope
  • Bird's eye extinction, in optical mineralogy
  • Undulose extinction, a geological term
  • Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem in optics, when light changes media
  • Extinction (psychology), when a conditioned response is reduced or lost
  • Extinction (neurology), a neurological disorder that impairs the ability to perceive multiple stimuli of the same type simultaneously

Film and television

  • "Extinction" (Star Trek: Enterprise), television episode
  • "Extinction" (Smallville episode), television episode
  • Resident Evil: Extinction, a 2007 film starring Milla Jovovich
  • Transformers: Age of Extinction, a 2014 Transformers film
  • Extinction (2015 film), a 2015 film starring Matthew Fox
  • Extinction (2018 film), a 2018 science fiction thriller film

Literature

  • Extinction (Forgotten Realms novel), a fantasy novel by Lisa Smedman
  • Extinction (Bernhard novel), a 1986 novel by Thomas Bernhard
  • Extinction, a science fiction novel by Ray Hammond

Video games

  • "Extinction", a game mode in the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
  • Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction, a 2003 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox
  • Extinction (video game), a 2018 action game by Iron Galaxy

Other uses

  • Extinction (peerage), in the United Kingdom, happens when all possible heirs of a peer have died out
  • "Extinction", a song by Stigmata from the album Hollow Dreams
  • Extinction (album), a 1990 album by Nausea

See also

  • Extinction Rebellion, environmental campaign
  • Extinct (disambiguation)
  • Extinction Event (disambiguation)