Joe is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 3 letters and 1 syllable and is pronounced Joe. In the U.S. in 2014, it ranked 565 in baby name popularity for boys with 488 occurrences.
There have been five mass extinction events throughout Earth's history: 1  The first great mass extinction event took place at the end of the Ordovician, when according to the fossil record, 60% of all genera of both terrestrial and marine life worldwide were exterminated.
According to the species-area theory and based on upper-bound estimating, the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year. The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large mammals known as megafauna, starting between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age.