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  2. List of extinction events - Wikipedia

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    Extinction Date Probable causes [2] Quaternary: Holocene extinction: c. 10,000 BC – Ongoing: Humans [3] Quaternary extinction event: 640,000, 74,000, and 13,000 years ago: Unknown; may include climate changes, massive volcanic eruptions and Humans (largely by human overhunting) [4] [5] [6] Neogene: Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary extinction: 2 Ma

  3. Extinction (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    Strong extinction in Earth's atmosphere of some wavelength regions (such as X-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared) is overcome by the use of space-based observatories. Since blue light is much more strongly attenuated than red light, extinction causes objects to appear redder than expected; this phenomenon is called interstellar reddening. [5]

  4. Extinction event - Wikipedia

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    Asteroid impacts: one large impact is associated with a mass extinction, that is, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event; there have been many smaller impacts but they are not associated with significant extinctions, [105] or cannot be dated precisely enough.

  5. What is a mass extinction, and why do scientists think we’re ...

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    The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species — is also the most recent. But ...

  6. Galactic year - Wikipedia

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    Permian–Triassic extinction event: 0.2933 gal Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event: 0.0013 gal Emergence of anatomically modern humans: Future (years from now) 0.15 gal Mean time between impacts of asteroidal bodies in the order of magnitude of the K/Pg impactor has elapsed. [8] 1 gal All the continents on Earth may fuse into a supercontinent.

  7. Timeline of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of the Universe lists events from its creation to its ultimate final state. For a timeline of the universe from the present to its presumed conclusion, see: Timeline of the far future Chronology of the universe

  8. Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.787 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

  9. 'The Conjuring' universe explained: How to watch all the ...

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    How (and where) to watch The Conjuring movies in chronological order. From The Nun in 1952 to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It in '81, here's the right way to follow The Conjuring timeline ...