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The fastest extinction of life on Earth occurred 65 million years ago when over 80% of the earth's organisms went extinct. This occurred in a relatively short 2-5 million years,
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What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
What theory has been used to explain the pattern of rapid evolution that often occurs after a mass extinction event?
The theory of rapid evolution rather than over a very long time.
When did organisms suffer the largest mass extinction known?
The most devastating mass extinction occurred in the Late Permian (~250 million years ago).
What are the extinction of animals in the very distant past?
There were five major extinction events in the past. They are called the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction event, the late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event.
What is the mass extinction?
the holocene extinction
How does extinction drive evolution?
A mass extinction event creates a large gap in the biodiversity of an ecosystem or multiple ecosystems, which results in a rapid period of evolution of a range of different species that weren't particularly specialised to fill that niche.
Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
What is it called when a high percentage of the species on earth dies off at a particular line?
This would be called a mass extinction or mass die off.This would be called a mass extinction.
When was the first mass extinction?
540 million years ago was the first mass extinction
How do you use the word mass extinction in a sentence?
We are still not sure what caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, though an asteroid impact seems to be the popular theory.Scientists believe we may be heading towards another mass extinction event.
What is the most rapid type of mass movement?
The most rapid type of natural mass movement is a river or waterfall. Is not right i think it _______________________________________________________ the best answer it "an earthquake".
How are mass extinction and mass extinction related?
they r related by having the same family blood
