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K–T extinction
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marine family diversity
Know about Earth's mass extinctions
ammonoids near-Earth object: impact
How did dinosaurs go extinct?
Chicxulub crater computer-generated image of the Chicxulub crater
Earth's history: What happens after a meteorite impact?
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Know about Earth's mass extinctions
An overview of mass extinctions.
Video: © MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How did dinosaurs go extinct?
John Rafferty, associate editor of Earth sciences of Encyclopædia Britannica,...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Earth's history: What happens after a meteorite impact?
Follow geologist Jan Smit as he uses samples of Earth's crust to investigate the...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Mopic/Dreamstime.com

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marine family diversity
The diversity of marine animal families since late Precambrian time. The data for...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
ammonoids
Ammonoids, also called ammonites, make up a group of cephalopods that lived from...
© marcel/Fotolia
near-Earth object: impact
The impact of a near-Earth object 66 million years ago in what is today the Caribbean...
NASA; illustration by Don Davis
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater at the northwestern point of the Yucatán Peninsula was formed...
NASA/JPL
computer-generated image of the Chicxulub crater
Chicxulub crater, on the northern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, in a...
V.L. Sharpton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; NASA
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