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Vor 4 Tagen · Although extinction is an ongoing feature of Earth’s flora and fauna (the vast majority of species ever to have lived are extinct), the fossil record reveals five unusually large extinctions, called mass extinction events, each involving the demise of vast numbers of species.
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Vor einem Tag · June 4, 2024. By Evrim Yazgin. Geological studies of sites in Australia and Antarctica reveal the series of tectonic events which caused a mass extinction more than 500 million years ago. The new ...
Vor 2 Tagen · It is also the greatest known mass extinction of insects. It is the greatest of the "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic. There is evidence for one to three distinct pulses, or phases, of extinction. The precise causes of the Great Dying remain unknown.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Triassic–Jurassic ( Tr-J) extinction event ( TJME ), often called the end-Triassic extinction, was a Mesozoic extinction event that marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 201.4 million years ago, [1] and is one of the top five major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, [2] profoundly affecting life on land and in ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The Cretaceous–Paleogene ( K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, [b] was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, [2] [3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
Vor 5 Tagen · There have been five big mass extinctions in Earth’s history – these are called the “Big Five”. Understanding the reasons and timelines of these events is important to understand the speed and scale of species extinctions today.
Vor 4 Tagen · 1. Glyptodon. Pavel.Riha.CB / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. Glyptodons were enormous armored mammals that became extinct around 10,000 years ago. Roughly the size of a VW Beetle, the...
