Extinction is when a species of animal, plant, or other organisms are no longer living or dies. Extinction is one of the major features of evolution. All...

An extinction event is a relatively fast drop in the number of species living on Earth. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases more than the rate...

The Permian/Triassic extinction event was the largest extinction event in the Phanerozoic eon. 57% of all biological families, 83% of all genera, 96%...

Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, now called the Cretaceous–Palaeogene extinction event, was about 65.5 million years ago. It may be called the K/T extinction event...

End-Triassic extinction event marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 201.3 million years ago. However, many of the extinctions occurred...

The End–Ordovician extinction event is the third-largest extinction event of the Phanerozoic eon. The Ordovician period followed the Cambrian and was followed...

Interstellar extinction is when the electromagnetic radiation of an astronomical object is blocked and/or scattered by other astronomical objects and cosmic...

catastrophic volcanic event. But volcanic activity may have caused the extinction event. Several large meteorite impacts occurred about this time. One such...

Countdown to Extinction is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. Countdown to Extinction was released on July 6, 1992. It was...

Resident Evil: Extinction is a 2007 action horror movie directed by Russell Mulcahy and a sequel to 2004's Resident Evil: Apocalypse. It starred Milla...

The Holocene extinction is the extinction of nearly all large mammal species after the end of the ice age. This was done by humans hunting the animals...

Extinction threshold are words used in the study of finding out how to keep groups of living things alive. An extinction threshold is the level below which...

things. More than 1 extinction vortex are named "extinction vortices." A group of living things may or may not be in an extinction vortex at any time....

Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action movie based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers:...

Local extinction, or extirpation, is when a species or other taxon becomes extinct in a certain area. This is different from being extinct across the world...

ended 201.3 million years ago. Its start and finish were both notable extinction events. The period before the Triassic was the Permian period, the last...

disappeared. A second strong extinction closed the Devonian period. The late Devonian extinction was one of five major extinction events in the history of...

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement. It was started in 1991 by the American activist Les U. Knight. Knight says...

Upper Cretaceous ended with the K/T extinction event. The end of the Cretaceous period is marked by the huge extinction event which marked the end of the...

Maximum was reached. This lasted for 100,000 years, and caused a large extinction event. The land was heavily forested, with temperate forests into Arctic...

them. The poaching causes various effects, its most direct impact is extinction, either globally or within a given locality. Poachers catch Indian tigers...

Palaeocene began and ended with an extinction event, each of quite a different character. The epoch began with the K/T extinction event, caused by a combination...

carnivore groups, and one group of herbivores. The end Triassic extinction caused the extinction of most pseudosuchians. The ancestors of modern-day crocodiles...

Triassic, some event or events caused the extinction of many animal species worldwide during the end–Triassic extinction event. It was similar to the more famous...

meteorite crater. It was probably made by the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and other animals ~65 mya. It is partly in the Yucatán...

and paleontology by comparing living animals with fossils. He proved extinction was a fact. He was the most influential person believing in catastrophism...

of the Silurian is set at a major extinction when 60% of marine species were wiped out, the End-Ordovician extinction event. The Silurian was the first...

have hit Earth 66 million years ago and caused the K/T extinction event, including the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. Such an explosion, similar...

era. These rocks were laid down just after the great Permian–Triassic extinction event. The Lower Triassic was called the Scythian stage, which can be...

Pradesh in India and also Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. It is currently facing extinction. Many Dzad people have stopped speaking Jad and have started speaking...

evidence from the end-Permian mass extinction". Anoxic events may have caused mass extinctions. These mass extinctions were so characteristic that they...

subgroups of Neognathae, Galloanserae and Neoaves, occurred before the K-Pg extinction event. However, fossils that can be unequivocally assigned to the Neognathae...

main reason for their extinction. Ice age animals. Illinois State Museum Martin P.S. & Klein R.G. (eds) 1984. Quarternary extinctions: a prehistoric revolution...

series of extinction events that, together amount to the second greatest extinction of the Phanerozoic. This was the End–Ordovician extinction event. Sea...

catastrophic Permian–Triassic extinction event. Benton says: "The key tetrapods to benefit from the Permo-Triassic mass extinction was the Archosauromorpha"...

million years ago (mya) and ended with the greatest extinction event, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The Palaeozoic was the beginning of plants...

at least 400 to 65 million years ago. They became extinct at the K/T extinction event. Their nearest living relatives are the octopus, squid, cuttlefish...

raised Lazarus from the dead. Lazarus taxa occur either because of (local) extinction, later resupplied, or as a sampling artifact. The fossil record is imperfect...

to 250 million years ago. It was the same time as the Permian–Triassic extinction event, which is estimated to have killed 90% of species existing at the...

species is a species of plant or animal, that has an extremely high risk of extinction in the future. The Christmas Island Pipistrelle is a very small bat which...

most striking cases, such as occurred in the Triassic after the greatest extinction event in Earth history, many lines underwent rapid radiation simultaneously...

American metal band Megadeth. It was on the band's 1992 album Countdown to Extinction, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for best metal album. It appeared...

north coast. It is believed to be made by the impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This short article about a place or feature can be made...

starting 252.2 mya (million years ago) with the P/Tr extinction and ending 65 mya with the K/T extinction (the one that killed all dinosaurs except birds)...

breakup of Pangaea in the Mesozoic Era. It may have caused the end-Triassic extinction event. The subsequent breakup of Pangaea created the Atlantic Ocean and...

and dominated most environments on land. They continued until the K/T extinction event 66 million years ago. From the fossil record, it is known that birds...

vulnerable species is a species of animals or plants which are threatened with extinction unless something changes. They will disappear unless the things that threaten...

Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, which included the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. The consensus among the scientific community is that the extinction was...

the sixth period in the Phanerozoic eon, and ended in the largest mass extinction known to science. Oxygen content of atmosphere: 23% (115% of modern level)...

members or to mean a "grand"/"basic" grouping of life in which subsequent extinction has led to its representing a great amount of biodiversity, particularly...