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The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event 65 million years ago was the last mass-extinction, and many believe that humans are causing a mass-extinction right now.

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Who disappeared during the last mass extinction?

Notable extinctions during the last mass extinction included all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and ammonites.


What is the effect of mass extinction?

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Was there a mass extinction during the last ice age?

Many geologists consider what you call the "last ice age" to be the last glacial of the present Ice Age, with the ice retreat starting only about 10-12ka. There was no mass extinction. A good many species did migrate or disappear altogther as the ice retreated, but in no way was it a mass extinction.


When did the last mass extinction occur in years?

65 million years ago


What is the mass extinction?

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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.


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


The last mass extinction of dinosaurs on Earth occurred between which two geologic periods?

asteroid attack


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.


How are mass extinction and mass extinction related?

they r related by having the same family blood