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The most recent and debatably best-known, the CretaceousâPaleogene extinction event, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago (Ma), was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically short period of time.
Mass extinction. The close of the Devonian Period is considered to be the second of the âbig fiveâ mass extinction events of Earthâs history. Rather than a single event, it is known to have had at least two prolonged episodes of species depletion and several shorter periods.