How to Use mass extinction in a Sentence

mass extinction

noun

• Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• Some episodes of rapid climate change during the Phanerozoic, so shows the fossil record, coincide with mass extinctions.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• The end-Triassic mass extinction was not the end of all ichthyosaurs, though.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024
• This cooled and dried continents and led to a mass extinction event.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• The back-and-forth created a climatic whiplash that drove a mass extinction.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• In an age of mass extinction, people are going to enormous lengths to put species back into place.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Instead, titanosaurs were among the witnesses to – and victims of – the most recent mass extinction on Earth.
  — Kristi Curry Rogers, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
• Even in the midst of what scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction, caused by anthropogenic climate change, the world is teeming with life.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• Close to 66 million years ago, during spring in the Northern Hemisphere, a 6-mile-wide chunk of space rock slammed into our planet and set off the world’s fifth mass extinction.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• For Thorn, both factors probably played are role in this mass extinction.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
• The asteroid strike famously triggered the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and about 90 percent of the Earth’s species 66 million years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
• The new growth influenced the evolution of creatures that survived the mass extinction.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• The last mass extinction occurred some 66 million years ago, when an asteroid slammed into Earth and killed off the dinosaurs and most life on the planet.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• And Bunny is still here, focusing on signs of life in her small garden rather than mass extinction, hopeful about the future.
  — Apoorva Tadepalli, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Even so, scientists think that neither acid haze and rain nor ozone damage were sufficient to cause the mass extinction.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
• The rocks preserve some of the last non-avian dinosaurs before Earth’s fifth mass extinction, including icons such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
• The end of the Cretaceous brought a mass extinction triggered by the Chicxulub asteroid.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
• Formed near the end of the Permian Period, prior to the world’s worst mass extinction, the expanse of olive-green rock was laid down by rivers that threaded across the prehistoric landscape.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction event – with their descendants living even today?
  — Hans Sues, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• This prediction aligns well with Earth’s past periods of mass extinction and the volatile history of our planet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2023
• Having lived on Earth for at least 600 million years, water bears persisted through all five mass extinction events.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• Land animals had a high rate of extinction and replacement by smaller species, and there was a mass extinction of tiny shell-making creatures that lived on the sea bed.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
• One is the mass extinction caused by a meteorite slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which caused most of the dinosaurs to die out.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024
• Scientists have identified five major episodes of mass extinction in the past 550 million years.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
• Pterosaurs dominated the skies during the time of the dinosaurs and met the same deadly fate 66 million years ago after an asteroid strike triggered a mass extinction event.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
• The museum said the finned animal appears in fossil records before the existence of trees and sharks have survived five mass extinctions.
  — Cortney Moore, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• For more than 400 million years, sharks have lived through multiple mass extinctions in habitats ranging from tropical coral reefs to the Arctic.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• The first chapter covers nearly 4.5 billion years, racing through the dawn of life and periodic mass extinctions.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Violence, destruction, giant insects, and ice and fire ensue, and lead to a mass extinction.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Most dinosaur species met their end during a mass extinction event that also killed roughly 75 percent of the planet’s entire plant and animal species.
  — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024