English Explanatory Dictionary

mass extinction event

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of five historical events in which the Earth experienced a loss of ∼75% of all species over a geological interval of less than 3 million years, the most recent being the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.

Word forms

mass extinction event mass extinction events
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