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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.
Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction 65 million years ago ; Mass extinction theories. Asteroid impacts, climate change, volcanoes - there have been many theories about the causes of mass extinctions. In some cases, such as the Cretaceous mass extinction event, more than one such factor was involved in the global catastrophe. 1  Catastrophic methane release. 2  Flood basalt eruptions. 3  Climate change. 4  Impact events.