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2. List of extinction events - Wikipedia

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   Dresbachian extinction event: 502 Ma: End-Botomian extinction event: 517 Ma: Precambrian: End-Ediacaran extinction: 542 Ma: Anoxic event [45] Great Oxygenation Event: 2400 Ma: Rising oxygen levels in the atmosphere due to the development of photosynthesis as well as possible Snowball Earth event. (see: Huronian glaciation.)

3. Late Ordovician mass extinction - Wikipedia

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   The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes known as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring roughly 445 million years ago (Ma). [1]

4. Extinction event - Wikipedia

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   This is the most extreme instance of a climate-caused extinction event. Since this will only happen late in the Sun's life, it would represent the final mass extinction in Earth's history (albeit a very long extinction event). [192] [193]

5. What is a mass extinction, and why do scientists think we’re ...

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   A growing number of scientists believe a sixth mass extinction event of a magnitude equal to the prior five has been unfolding for the past 10,000 years as humans have made their mark around the ...

6. The most famous extinction event in the planet's history is ...

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   For the record: 2:18 p.m. May 31, 2023: An earlier version of this story misidentified the plant that was neither growing nor deteriorating.It was Sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, not ...

7. Permian–Triassic extinction event - Wikipedia

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   It is Earth's most severe known extinction event, [10] [11] with the extinction of 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species [12] [13] [14] and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species. [15] It is also the greatest known mass extinction of insects. [16] It is the greatest of the "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic ...

8. How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the ...

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   Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination. Roger Harris/Science Photo library via Getty ...

9. Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - Wikipedia

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   The proliferation of fungi has occurred after several extinction events, including the Permian–Triassic extinction event, the largest known mass extinction in Earth's history, with up to 96% of all species suffering extinction. [178]