Other causal or contributing factors to the extinction may have been the Deccan Traps and other volcanic eruptions, climate change, and sea level change. Timeline of Cretaceous... · Deccan Traps · Impact winter · Adaptive radiation

5 окт. 2024 г. · Most died out by the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 66 million years ago, but many lines of evidence now show that one lineage evolved ...

3 нояб. 2022 г. · In January 2020, scientists reported new evidence that the extinction event was mostly a result of the meteorite impact and not volcanism. Other ... Extinction Patterns · Evidence · Chicxulub Impact

The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction coincided with two major global environmental perturbations: heightened volcanism associated with the Deccan ...

18 июл. 2024 г. · Diverse groups of land and sea organisms died out at this time, 66.05 million years ago.

A meteorite big enough to be called a small asteroid hit Earth precisely at the time of the K-T extinction. The evidence for the impact was first discovered by ...

8 дней назад · Scientists estimate that over 75% of animal and plant species became extinct at this time, including the dinosaurs on land and the ammonites in ...

26 мая 2016 г. · We show that the extinction was rapid and severe in Antarctica, with no significant biotic decline during the latest Cretaceous, contrary to previous studies.

This evidence includes an ancient impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico (now filled in by younger rocks) that dates to the time of the extinction.

1 июн. 2018 г. · A significant body of evidence suggests that the extinction was followed by a decrease in the primary and export productivity of the oceans.