Why Did Dinosaurs Go Extinction?
Topic: Why Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? A Gradual and Sudden End to Their Reign
Introduction: About 65 mya almost three quarters of the animal and plant species on earth went extinct. This mass extinction is known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event. The Cretaceous was the last period of the Mesozoic Era which is when dinosaurs lived from about 250 to 65 mya and the Paleogene is the first period of the Cenozoic Era that started about 65 mya which is the Era that we are currently living in. So the extinction event marked the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Paleogene period hence the name of the extinction event and the start of a new era. Most people associate the extinction event with dinosaurs because
Introduction: About 65 mya almost three quarters of the animal and plant species on earth went extinct. This mass extinction is known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event. The Cretaceous was the last period of the Mesozoic Era which is when dinosaurs lived from about 250 to 65 mya and the Paleogene is the first period of the Cenozoic Era that started about 65 mya which is the Era that we are currently living in. So the extinction event marked the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Paleogene period hence the name of the extinction event and the start of a new era. Most people associate the extinction event with dinosaurs because