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Top Five Extinctions
  • Ordovician-silurian Extinction: 440 million years ago. Small marine organisms died out.
  • Devonian Extinction: 365 million years ago. ...
  • Permian-triassic Extinction: 250 million years ago. ...
  • Triassic-jurassic Extinction: 210 million years ago. ...
  • Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: 65 million Years Ago.
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The "Big Five" mass extinctions ; 5, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, 66 Ma ; 5 · Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta, where erosion has exposed the Cretaceous ...
May 17, 2021 · The most famous of all the mass extinction events is the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction — better known as the day the dinosaurs died. The event ...
Sep 15, 2022 · 1. End-Ordovician: The 1-2 Punch · 2. End-Devonian: The Long Road to Oblivion · 3. End-Permian: The Big One · 4. End-Triassic: History Nearly ...
Aug 31, 2024 · These five mass extinctions include the Ordovician Mass Extinction, Devonian Mass Extinction, Permian Mass Extinction, Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction, and ...
Sep 26, 2019 · The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most recent mass extinction and the only one definitively connected to a major asteroid impact.
May 19, 2021 · The Permian mass extinction, which happened 250 million years ago, was the largest and most devastating event of the five. The Permian-Triassic ...
Jul 18, 2022 · Ordovician-Silurian · Late Devonian · Permian-Triassic · Triassic-Jurassic · Cretaceous-Paleogene · Today's crisis.
The planet has experienced five previous mass extinction events, the last one occurring 65.5 million years ago which wiped out the dinosaurs from existence.