What Mass Extinction Are We

The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity.

Are we in the midst of a 6th mass extinction?

Earth’s creatures are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, comparable to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which calculates that three-quarters of today’s animal species could vanish within 300 years.

Are we in the largest mass extinction?

TIME PERIODEXTINCTIONCurrent185 years(overall) 51% of species