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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of...
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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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    011 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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    of diverse animals in the wake of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event that ended the preceding Cretaceous Period. The Period is marked by considerable...
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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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    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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    mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate. The most recent and best-known, the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, which...
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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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    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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    Titanoboa (category Paleogene Colombia)
    following the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, being one of the largest reptiles to evolve after the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. Its vertebrae...
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