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This is answers.com, not the psychic network.Nobody knows. Various people have predicted various things, but until one of them happens, we won't know for sure.
At one time it was believed that mass extinctions were periodic, and some analyses suggested we were about due for one ... but as more data has come in, it now looks like the periodicity may have been a statistical coincidence, and that smaller extinction events occur all the time. There was a relatively recent one in the oceans about two million years ago, for example (the last really major one was the K-Pg event 66 million years ago, widely thought to have been caused by an asteroid impact).
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What are 3 reasons for mass extinction?
Mass extinction could occur due to climate change, an asteroid impact and even a volcanic eruption.
When doe extinction occur?
Extinction of a single species can occur at any time if said species in hunted excessively, but mass extinction only occurs every 27 to 33 million years.
When did the last mass extinction occur in years?
65 million years ago
How do you know a mass extinction actually did occur?
No evidence of the extinct lifeforms appears in the stratigraphic record immediately following the extinction event.
What is the effect of mass extinction?
The effect of mass extinction is extinction, death of a mass
Why do you think most extinction's occur as background extinctions?
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
When did the mass extinction that killed dinosaurs occur?
In the Late Cretaceous (65 million years ago).
What are the extinction of animals in the very distant past?
There were five major extinction events in the past. They are called the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction event, the late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event.
What is the mass extinction?
the holocene extinction
What problems may occur if ozone layer disappeared?
If the ozone is destroyed, it will cause mass extinction. Mankind will perish.
Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
What is it called when a high percentage of the species on earth dies off at a particular line?
This would be called a mass extinction or mass die off.This would be called a mass extinction.
