5 Mass Extinctions in Earth’s History

When will it be the sixth?

Peter Preskar
Short History
Published in
5 min readOct 27, 2020

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A skeleton — artistic depiction (Image: wallpaperflare.com)

Congratulations! You are among the one percent of the species on Earth which are not yet extinct! In the Earth’s 4.5 billion years, five billion species have lived on the planet. Among these were giant armored fishes, dinosaurs, and Tasmanian tigers, just to name a few.

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