mass extinction events

A form of mass extinction event — 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.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of mass extinction event
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