Widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth.
1By definition, this means that Earth has entered a mass extinction event.
2Do we sit back and watch an extinction event in northern Iraq?
3Some feared that the gathering extinction event might soon overwhelm mankind: the dieback.
4The specific extinction event that's about to happen is a subspecialty.
5Traces of this near- extinction event still show up in DNA today.
6But, much later, they had evidently suffered their own extinction event.
7We will re-seed them with Garden's native life forms after the extinction event.
8Video Image Is earth experiencing its first "mass extinction event" since dinosaurs?
9No doubt many native insects would survive the extinction event.
10Could we actually have prevented that kind of extinction event?'
11Barring a major extinction event and the cat next door, she would outlive everything.
12Each mass extinction event seemed to change the rules.
13Have you heard we're living through a mass- extinction event?
14For the first time, however, a species could be the cause of a mass extinction event.
15EARTH'S sixth great extinction event has already begun.
16This is further evidence that we are well on the way to the next great extinction event.
Translations for extinction event