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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal...
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    amount of research has been conducted on the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era...
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    043 Ma. The K–Pg boundary is associated with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a mass extinction which destroyed a majority of the world's Mesozoic...
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    early Paleogene, as survivors of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event took advantage of empty ecological niches left behind by the extinction of the...
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    Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, a large mass extinction in which many groups, including non-avian dinosaurs...
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    impact 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Small objects frequently collide with Earth. There is an...
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    mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate. The most recent and best-known, the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, which...
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    posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was caused by the...
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    was wiped out in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event; only 3 extant tetrapod lineages can trace their ancestry to Cretaceous India. Most of India's...
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    willows could be found in abundance. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically...
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