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An extinction event (also known as: mass extinction; extinction-level event, ELE) is a sharp decrease in the number of species in a relatively short period of time. Mass extinctions affect most major taxonomic groups present at the time — birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates and other simpler life forms. They may be caused by one or both of:extinction of an unusually large number of species in a short period.a sharp drop in the rate of speciation.
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pron. he, him, it

v. link

n. hand, fist, flapper, one shot, other person, fin

v. sift, sieve, eliminate, screen, annihilate, bolt, riddle

theype ele = them