Which Large Animals Were Wiped Out by the Cretaceous Extinction

Question

Which large animals were wiped out by the Cretaceous extinction?
A) sharks
B) dinosaurs
C) whales
D) mammoths

Accepted Answer

The extinction event, which occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs, as well as many other species of plants and animals. Sharks, whales, and mammoths were not affected by this extinction event as they evolved later, during the Cenozoic era.