Question

What are the 5 Mass Extinctions?

Answer 1

Mass Extinctions:

1. The term "mass extinction" alludes to a cataclysmic catastrophe that wiped off the majority of the species on the planet at the time.
2. There have been five mass extinction events, which are as follows:

5 Mass Extinctions:

1. The Ordovician-Silurian extinction event (450-440 mya)
2. Devonian mass extinction (375–360 million years ago).
3. The Permian-Triassic extinction event (252 mya)
4. The Triassic-Jurassic extinction event (201 mya)
5. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (66 mya) formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) extinction.