a meteorite fell from space and it destroyed all the animals and turning them 2 soil and fossils and the dirt just covered them over and no more dinosaurs or mammoths
The outcomes of each of the mass extinctions is that animal and/or bacteria die.
No
No, they are fundamental to the process of evolution. Mass extinctions are less common.
Bad things
Mass extinctions occur when extreme temperatures happen.https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/extinction3.htm
Yes, extinctions have happened throughout history, they are happening today and will continue to happen in the future.
Most extinctions occur as background extinctions because they are longer time periods unlike the shorter mass extinctions which there were only two in the Paleozoic era, the Ordovician mass extinction, and the Permian/Triassic extinction in which 95% of all marine animals became extinct
Adaptive Radiation
climate change
Mass extinctions are usually followed by a period of rapid diversification as surviving species adapt to new environmental conditions and fill ecological niches left vacant by extinct species. This diversification can lead to the emergence of new species and ecosystems over time.
5 mass extinctions
order in which fossils are found in the fossil record.