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What was the great extinction?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

The most recent one was the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, about 65 million years ago. Prior to it, reptiles were still the dominant species on earth. After it reptiles - especially the huge ones (dinosaurs) gave way to mammals as the dominant species. An event after which the distribution of earth's fauna changed dramatically.

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