The investigations of these Primarily tend to Determine their Cause [when physically possible].
The outcomes of each of the mass extinctions is that animal and/or bacteria die.
When there are mass extinctions they are usually followed by adaptive radiation and very rapid diversification. The last mass extinctions happened 65 million years ago.
No, they are fundamental to the process of evolution. Mass extinctions are less common.
Bad things
biospere
Ice age
Mass extinctions occur when extreme temperatures happen.https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/extinction3.htm
Most extinctions occur as background extinctions because they are longer time periods unlike the shorter mass extinctions which there were only two in the Paleozoic era, the Ordovician mass extinction, and the Permian/Triassic extinction in which 95% of all marine animals became extinct
Adaptive Radiation
climate change
order in which fossils are found in the fossil record.
5 mass extinctions