Explore: Mass Extinctions

less vulnerable to mass extinctions, but susceptibility to extinction at a taxonomic level does not appear to make mass extinctions either more or less

crisis. Many of these extinctions are undocumented, as the species are often undiscovered before their extinctions. Current extinction rates are estimated

Devonian mass extinctions Archived 2020-07-27 at the Wayback Machine at The Devonian Times. An excellent overview. Devonian Mass Extinction BBC "The Extinction

severity, the Late Ordovician mass extinction did not produce major changes to ecosystem structures compared to other mass extinctions, nor did it lead to any

Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K–T) extinction event, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of

species. It is also the greatest known mass extinction of insects. It is the greatest of the "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic. There is evidence

background extinction, the Signor–Lipps effect and clustering of extinctions in certain taxa. The loss of marine invertebrates during the Capitanian mass extinction

Partial list from Image:Extinction Intensity.png Bond, David P. G.; Grasby, Stephen E. (2017-07-15). "On the causes of mass extinctions". Palaeogeography,

for marine extinctions, evidence is inconclusive since many sea level drops in geological history are not correlated with increased extinctions. However

change for hundreds of millions of years. Mass extinctions are relatively rare events; however, isolated extinctions of species and clades are quite common