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Jul 31, 2019 · Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Learn about the mass extinction event 66 million years ago and the evidence for what ended the age of the dinosaurs.
Find out why most dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction.
Mar 24, 2010 · The Permian-Triassic extinction event, known as the Great Dying, occurred 251.4 million years ago and eradicated 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of all terrestrial...
One day 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a mountain struck near the Yucatán Peninsula with an explosive force equivalent to 100 trillion tons of TNT. In that cataclysmic instant, the 165-million-year reign of the dinosaurs came to an end.
Jul 14, 2024 · The “moments” of apparently high extinction levels among dinosaurs occurred at two points in the Triassic (about 221 million and 210 million years ago), perhaps at the end of the Jurassic (145 million years ago), and, of course, at the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago).
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
Sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. With a devastating asteroid impact, a reign that had lasted 180 million years was abruptly ended. Prof Paul Barrett, a dinosaur researcher at the Museum, explains what is thought to have happened the day the dinosaurs died.
