Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

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Citation: “The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota.” Edie, Collins, and Jablonski, Science Advances, May 21, 2025. Funding: ...

How did the Cretaceous mass extinction affect the ocean? The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period is perhaps the most famous in history.

You will find this mass extinction event referred to in a few different ways including the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) and Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME).

Modern research concludes that the Chicxulub meteorite, rather than volcanic eruptions in India, is primarily responsible for the mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.