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Kōrero: Extinctions

Major extinctions

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Major extinctions

This table shows the major extinction events over the last 450 million years. The current extinction event, caused largely by human impact, is widely recognised as the sixth extinction.

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Richard Holdaway, Extinctions – Pre-human extinction events, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/diagram/13650/major-extinctions (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Richard Holdaway, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.