Extinction events
Holocene extinction
Late Pleistocen...
Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary...
Middle Miocene di...
Eocene–Oligocene extinction e...
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction e...
Cenomanian-Turonian boundary e...
Aptian extinction
End-Jurassic (Tithonian...
Toarcian turnover
Triassic–Jurassic extinction e...
Carnian pluvial epis...
Permian–Triassic extinction e...
Olson's Extinction
Carboniferous rainforest c...
Late Devonian e...
Lau event
Mulde event
Ireviken event
Late Ordovician...
Cambrian–Ordovician extinction e...
Dresbachian extinction
End-Botomian mass extin...
End-Ediacaran extinction
Great Oxidation E...
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth.
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Nov 30, 2022 · The five mass extinctions · End Ordovician (444 million years ago; mya) · Late Devonian (360 mya) · End Permian (250 mya) · End Triassic (200 mya) – ...
May 19, 2021 · A mass extinction event is when species vanish much faster than they are replaced. This is usually defined as about 75% of the world's species ...
The largest mass extinction event happened around 250 million years ago, when perhaps 95 percent of all species went extinct.
The Permian-Triassic extinction, sometimes called the “Great Dying,” is the greatest mass extinction event in the fossil record.
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.
Dec 23, 2023 · The causes of these extinctions are varied — land-use change, habitat loss, deforestation, intensive farming and agriculture, invasive species, ...
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 26, 2019 · The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most recent mass extinction and the only one definitively connected to a major asteroid impact.
This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor: "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic). Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic.
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