How To Use Extinct In A Sentence

If we don't save the rich people today they might be extinct tomorrow just like the dinosaurs. * shedding a fake tear for the plight of the rich* knixphan Says: Think Progress
Dinosaurs had been extinct for 50 million years. Times, Sunday Times
I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Its population is so small that forecasts put it on the brink of extinction. Times, Sunday Times
Whether it is a native cat, previously thought extinct, or an escaped exotic pet, the Beast of Bodmin is a creature that refuses to disappear.

Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
THE international trade in Atlantic blue fin tuna could be banned in a dramatic move to save the fish from extinction. The Sun
Experts fear they could be the first great ape to become extinct in the wild. The Sun
It is a strange fact that Dionaea, which is one of the most beautifully adapted plants in the vegetable kingdom, should apparently be on the high-road to extinction. Insectivorous Plants
And it's always easier for a species to go extinct than to recolonise. Times, Sunday Times
Note that several Cambrian and early Ordovician mass extinctions are not shown here.
A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
There was none after 1969, and the colony is now extinct.
As conscious beings we can deduce that the logical conclusion of this decline is our extinction.
One of the greatest surprises recorded by the survey is the recolonisation of Britain by the 13-spot ladybird, which was once considered extinct here. British ladybird species struggling to compete with alien invaders
But as Neanderthal as a whole went extinct anyhow, these hypothetically admixed individuals left surely no heirs either. Quantifying Neanderthal introgression by serial coalescent simulations
an extinct species of fish
Eventually, faster-maturing, fine-fleeced Merinos replaced them, and the breed became nearly extinct, both here and abroad.
Charles Gordon Frazer painted Cannibal Feast to provide an insight into the cannibal civilisations he feared were on the brink of extinction after witnessing the feast while hiding in long grass.
Prescription (a slight modification of the older usucaption) is the dispensing with evidence of title, and is acquisitive when it is the means of acquiring Ownership and extinctive (divestitive) when it bars a right of action. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
At the same time, through uncaring ignorance or malice, they brought about the extinction of numberless species of native flora and fauna.
It is believed that predation by non-native red foxes was the primary reason for the extinction of the dusky pademelon on mainland Australia.
The Indochinese tiger, Asian elephant and endemic species like the saola, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and Siamese crocodile are on the verge of extinction in the country. Javan rhino driven to extinction in Vietnam, conservationists say
Now the moa is officially extinct, being gone since the 12th century, with some lingering possibly into the 1500's. Archive 2007-02-01
Why are there different combinations of extinct species in each layer of rock?
His efforts have been successful and especially notable is the restoration of the extinct cahows.
As compared to the neutral mutant, this probability of extinction is less by only 0.01. The Weasel Thread
Blue whale of Antarrct has plunged to less than 1% of the original abundance. West Pacific grey whale hovers on the edge of extinction with just over 100 remaining.
Other animals found nearby included two extinct species of vole - a small rodent resembling a mouse - that were used to date the site.
Zachriel: Rapid climate change will result in agricultural failure, flooding of highly populated coastal areas, dislocation, disease, migration, mass extinctions, political instability and human suffering. About: Blinded by Science
What kinds of extinct species had once belonged to the groups?
Every day of the week some green doom-monger can be heard in lament for the dwindling or extinction of some bird or other.
Most of the Northern Iberian breeds are in high risk of extinction and are conserved in environmentally protected rural areas of Spain and Portugal.
Only a handful of endangered species, such as the Tecopa pupfish, the longjaw cisco, and the dusky seaside sparrow, have ever been taken off the list because they went extinct.
In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species. On Some Fossil Remains of Man
Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory.
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
Cavia aperea went locally extinct, and three other rodent species declined significantly: the South American giant rat Mongabay.com News
Many tropical islands once had their own species, but most of these are now extinct.
If it is alive then it probably is not a dinosaur, since dinosaurs are extinct.
The study places the Eastern Arctic bowhead whale, Western arctic bowhead whale and the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga whale on the list of species facing imminent extinction.
Hunted nearly to extinction, the shy, greenish-grey jewfish made a comeback in these waters when laws to protect them were passed in 1990.
“The Arab al-Arabá” (or al — Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, prehistoric, proto-historic and extinct tribes; for instance, a few of the Adites who being at Meccah escaped the destruction of their wicked nation, but mingled with other classes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
the Americas - was hunted to extinction and the climate entered a glacial interstadial. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Eventually we dominated and may have caused the extinction of another earlier human species, the Neanderthals.
We are now in the middle of the sixth extinction episode. Times, Sunday Times
But how do mass extinctions perturb these systems in the first place?
Seals and marine birds are also carnivores that dine at or near the top of the food chain (as did the extinct marine reptiles).
Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986 after overwhelming evidence that it was driving the world's largest mammals to extinction. Times, Sunday Times
This was followed by several papers chiefly bearing upon the relation between extinct and existing forms -- a line of research which culminated in the publication of the _Histoire des végétaux fossiles_, which has earned for him the title of "father of palaeobotany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
If the arctic host populations become fragmented due to the northward expansion of southern biogeographic elements, extinction of parasites in small host populations and/or cryptic speciation (isolation events seen in parasites, often only by using molecular methods, that are not evident in host populations) in refugia are likely to follow. Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
The only human question that would sadly go extinct if we go extinct is "where does evolution go from here?", and that's not all that interesting a question anyway. A Very Cool, Very Big Machine
By the end of the Eocene, modern orders and families replaced the archaic fauna of mostly extinct groups with no living descendants.
Granted, this species is extinct, but not that long ago, they filled this island.
But you're looking at the peak of an extinct volcano. Times, Sunday Times
In the 19th century, inbreeding nearly led to the extinction of the royal family.
Would attempts to track and rediscover presumed-extinct species fall into the realm of cryptozoology?
Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. Marquesas tropical moist forests
Along the banks we caught sight of both of the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa.
Unlike previous mass extinctions this current episode is due to the disruptive activities of just one species, man.
Others claim that the pithecanthropus was the end of a special branch of the apes; the Heidelberg man the last of another extinct branch; the Piltdown man and the Neanderthal man, likewise the last of other extinct species. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
Therefore they will submit tamely to the extinction of the greater number of their kind.
The Permian extinction, 244 million years ago, devastated the marine biota: tabulate and rugose corals, blastoid echinoderms, graptolites, and most crinoids died out, as did the last of the trilobites. Paleozoic
an extinct volcano
Scientists think it unlikely that any species will actually become extinct as a consequence of the oil spill.
The animal is under threat of extinction in the wild as its forest habitat is destroyed to make way for agricultural land. Times, Sunday Times
So having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary disadvantage, unless it results in extinction, then it is. angryoldfatman: For social insects to have evolved, at some point having sterile offspring had to be advantageous for the organism in question. At What Level did this Evolve?
The rats have placed in serious risk - on the edge of extinction - the Galapagos petrel, which is a marine bird unique in the world and of which only 120 remain," the project's manager, Victor Carrion, told The Associated Press by telephone from the islands. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Elephant for the mammoth Cheetah for the New World cheetah Przewalski's horse for the tarpan In one proposal to "rewild" North America, Asian and African elephants would play the ecological role of the now-extinct Columbian mammoth. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
Like the lycopod trees, these woody calamites scarcely survived the ‘Age of Coal’, and by the mid-Permian they were extinct.
Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
Animals which are currently threatened with extinction may be saved by the use of frozen embryos and IVF technology which uses related species to gestate embryos.
Anyway, back to the dodos, the dodo is the “star” of the article about extinct birds at Wikipedia and the Coat of arms of Mauritius has a dodo! The Dodo Blog
Such group actions, such as jurisdiction to case, determination to plaintiff competence, extinctive prescription, court costs and so on, are expounded.
Three species of hornbills were fast being hunted to extinction. Times, Sunday Times
To save his dynasty from extinction, Grand Duke Karl needed to find a way to preserve the Z?hringen line. Granting succession rights to his half-uncles seemed the ideal solution.
There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Objective: To reveal the extinction character of ketamine induced conditioned place preference ( CPP ) in rats.
Yes, it says it's a language from Australia, but now it's extinct.
Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
With an extinction-colonization model, the probability of fixation can be much reduced relative to panmixia.
If Mark E. Smith's current rate of band sackage were to continue, the inevitable extinction of Fall members would leave him forced to embark on a solo career, The Fall
Irish elk W 1891 O megacerotine (extinct) salamandrine salamander Irish elk 1884 OW 1712-1888 OW megatherine (extinct) sciurine squirrel 1842 - VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
30 percent of reptiles, birds, and fish are currently threatened with extinction.
We're bored to extinction, and BLOGGS is a "foots"; Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891
And indeed, today's two species of seriema in southern South America appear to be derived from Pleistocene fossil birds which were once giant, flightless predators (known as phorusrhacoids) of now-extinct fauna.
Species in danger of extinction are the pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus celer), which is the most important herbivore in the area, the loica pampeana (Sturnella defilippi), Limosa haemastica, Laterallus spilopterus and Coturnicops notata. Semi-arid Pampas
Themed "Countdown to Extinction", the fest will falso eature bands from Hong Kong, Junk - Latest Happenings
Foods they are seeking to preserve include thousands of apple varieties that are at risk of becoming extinct, different types of handcrafted cheeses and small-batch microbrews.
DNA extracted from specimens of extinct animals has already been used to show that the Mauritian dodo is a close cousin to the common pigeon.
As for biodiversity, the most important species threatened with extinction today is the human race.
If Canadians wanted to persecute their wolves, there was no need to ship them south; Canis lupus is sufficiently under siege in the "great white north," with provincial governments scapegoating wolves for everything from the precipitous decline of mountain caribou to the near-extinction of the Vancouver Island marmot. Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
It looked a pleasant enough place from the ship even if, according to the guide books, it was built in the crater of an extinct volcano.
All water used by the fire - brigade for fire extinction purpose is supplied free by an act of Congress.
Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags.
The tripartite division was East Germanic (Gothic and other extinct languages), West Germanic (German, Dutch, English), and North Germanic (Danish and the other Scandinavian languages.) Languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES.
Inevitably many marine creatures became extinct when their habitats were literally squeezed out of existence.
Because of the success of broadband services in the past few years, it could be very likely that dial-up service will eventually become extinct around the world.
In early 1997, I applied to sit an exam to become a copyboy, a now extinct species of dogsbodies who once did everything journos couldn't be bothered doing.
New evidence concerning the extinction of the endemic murid Rattus macleari from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests
Both countries have been working together ever since they realized how close the whooping crane was to extinction.
Many wild plants are under threat of extinction.
Can there be a more mortal, poisonous consumption and asphyxy of the mind than this decline and extinction of all reverence? The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
North Atlantic swordfish faced similar peril in the 1990's, having for decades been severely overfished and mismanaged nearly to the point of commercial extinction.
Hominidae, the mammalian family that includes modern humans and their immediately extinct ancestors, contains four genera: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo.
The chiru was being hunted to extinction for the sake of glamour. Times, Sunday Times
The odd white flag with the red cross of St George snaps in the breeze on a makeshift flagpole of old aerials, high above the iron palisades, as if this was the last redoubt of a race on the verge of extinction.
We then calculated the residuals, the difference between each interval's extinction intensity and its lowest smoothed value.
Knoll and Carroll think there was a mass extinction event at the Proterozoic-Cambrian border. Continuation…
For the progress is noticeable only by comparison, and, without speaking of open wars, brigandage, which is dying out, is not yet quite extinct. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
A Lancaster woman is to hike 6,000 metres up to the summit of an extinct volcano.
We were pleased to read recently that efforts are being made to re-establish an almost extinct species in Kerry.
This event is theorized to have created enormous amounts of dust, which blocked out the sun, possibly for years, and led to the extinction of 75 percent of all living species.
Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
the extinction of the volcano
Species in danger of economic extinction in this LME include the cabrilla, black and white seabass, Gulf grouper, yellowtail, dog snapper and sierra. Gulf of California large marine ecosystem
Though barrels may be close to extinct, companies still ship some oil in 55-gallon steel drums.
Unless its leadership is willing to embrace new ideas and new members, the once Grand Old Party will be relegated to the dustheap of history, like the Whigs, Federalists and other once-major parties that refused to face reality and change, and rapidly moved from dominance to extinction. Who Is John McCain, and What Is He Doing to the Republican Party?
Both are attempting to defy logic and, indeed, extinction by trying to reconcile two irreconcilable cultures. Times, Sunday Times
In the Netherlands, almost a thousand wild horses bred to resemble the extinct tarpan graze in a 14,000-acre preserve. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
Quite a few species once thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in recent times, including the local ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus), St. Helena olive (Nesiota elliptica), false gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium). St. Helena scrub and woodlands
The aurochs Bos primigenius, the wild ancestor of modern cattle, is now extinct, but the American bison also called the plains buffalo, which belongs to the same Bovidae family, displays enormous sexual dimorphism. The Goddess and the Bull
The biological positivists could only propose indeterminate detention or extinction for such categories of offender.
Abstract: Three published estimates of the frequency of polyploidy in angiosperms 30 to 35 percent, 47 percent, and 70 to 80 percent were tested by estimating the genome size of extinct woody angiosperms with the use of fossil guard cell size as a proxy for cellular DNA content. Junk DNA is still junk - The Panda's Thumb
The first extinction of the Precambrian, which largely affected stromatolites and acritarchs, has been correlated with a large glaciation event that occurred about 600 million years ago.
EXPERTS have found evidence of a volcanic eruption that led to mass extinction 260 million years ago. The Sun
The dinosaurs were only one of the groups that became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous; also hard-hit were the unicellular Foraminifera, the ammonites, and marine reptiles such as the mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
Modern farming methods have led to the total extinction of many species of wild flowers.
However, Tulu language with its near extinct script has been generating much enthusiasm amongst the linguists, as it is now believed to be one of the oldest Dravidian languages.
It is 250 years since the wolf became extinct in Britain.
The scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), now presumed to be extinct in the wild, dama gazelle (Gazella dama, EN), dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas, VU) and red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons, VU) were all formerly abundant and widespread, as was the now extinct sub-species of the common hartebeest, the bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus busephalus buselaphus). Sahelian Acacia savanna
Natural selection has equipped us with a religious longing for dialogue with supernatural beings, and this propensity has in turn fostered a sense of "sociality" and other emotions essential to dealing with the omnipresent threat of extinction at the hands of nature and hostile human groups. Commonweal Magazine
Because of the unusual pattern of speciation preceding extinction, the region contained a mix of extinct and living species through the period of change.
Lyell's visits to France and Italy led him to propose a threefold stratigraphical division of the Tertiary rocks there on the basis of the proportion of recent to extinct species of mollusc present.
Unlike artiodactyls, perissodactyls either walk on three toes (like rhinos, tapirs, many extinct horses, and other extinct groups) or on a single toe (like recent horses).
Welcoming the intermarried without any regard to the Torah will only lead to the extinction of the Conservative Jewish community. Rosh Hashanah: Mixed Faith Families, Mix-and-Match Honey and Apples « The Blog at 16th and Q
They say that rare small mammals that have become extinct on mainland Australia will be at risk. Times, Sunday Times
These might sound like nasty diseases or extinct animals, but they are actually names of clouds. Times, Sunday Times
Even so I didn't know there was an extinct title for Walkley?
Many of the extinct marsupial megafauna were large, herbivorous browsers, some weighing several tons.
Now another denizen, the Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladius — which measures up to 20 feet long and decades ago was commonly seen leaping above the waters — appears to be on the verge of extinction, if not already gone forever. A Paddlefish Warning, from China
The Turtle Conservation Fund has listed the 25 most endangered turtles to highlight the survival crisis facing tortoises and freshwater turtles and to unveil a global plan to prevent further extinctions.
Big Bone Cave was certainly mined for fertilizer in 1884, when excavation by a local farmer unearthed bones of an extinct giant sloth.
It means that four of the six great apes are one step away from extinction in the wild. Times, Sunday Times
The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction.
I was happy that the wrecks of Champion and Iona were still there, giving divers the chance to see a method of propulsion that is now almost extinct.
Carnivores, species at the top of the food chain, are in danger of a mass extinction that would affect all species within their ecosystems.
The study finds 122 species of frogs, toads, salamanders and legless amphibians have probably become extinct since 1980 and warns that a third of all amphibian species currently face the same fate.
For the record, the deal with horses in North America is that, while members of the genus Equus were numerous and important there in the Pleistocene, they later became extinct (to quote R. Dale Guthrie (2003): ‘equid species dominated North American late Pleistocene faunas in terms of abundance, geographical distribution, and species variety, yet none survived into the Holocene epoch’ (p. 169)). Archive 2006-12-01
The campaign and the Trust were acclaimed for helping save City from the threat of extinction.
As these species became extinct, the giant birds switched to bison, elk, and deer.
While visiting the Auckland museum last month I was fascinated to see the replica of a gigantic bird called a moa, extinct since around 1500 A.D. Archive 2009-05-01
They are mating with the local rare species of white-headed duck producing a mongrel that could force the indigenous breed into extinction.
Similar accomplishments can be found in the raising of many almost-extinct species of game birds, such as wild turkey.
The manner in which the Dodo were obliterated from the surface of the earth has left a lasting impact on the natural history of our global eco-system: in fact a lesson in extinction to humanity. A brief history of the dodo
We understand today that in the Indochinese countries, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, there are three species of wild cattle: the gaur, the banteng and the nearly extinct Kouprey.
Several countries, states, and provinces list species of neuroptera that are considered rare or possibly threatened with extinction.
There friggin sheep, my only concern if they go extinct is no more mutton from them. Think Progress » Bush Rides Roughshod Over Protected Federal Land
The latter, in spite of his passion for Alice, seemed to return the loathful antipathy of her brother; the similarity of their dispositions made them like joint possessors of an individual nature, which could not become wholly the property of one, unless by the extinction of the other. Sketches and Studies
Over centuries they were hunted to the brink of extinction in the big game safaris of southern Africa.
They engaged in tempestuous weather; and the tumultuary conflict was continued from the dawn to the extinction of light. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
One fragment of that ancient smashup may have struck Earth 65 million years ago, triggering a mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Ianrandalstrock: Maybe it's a Romulan warbird
The confidence interval lengths are too short to the extent that the compositional differences between these two floras reflect original heterogeneity and not extinction or emigration.
In the general case, anisotropic substances will show colours, the interference colours; but on rotation through 360° they go black, or into extinction, four times.
Amphibians are regarded as sentinel vertebrates in the current drama of global extinctions.
By the late 1960s many believed the disease was on the verge of extinction.
The creature is on the threshold of extinction.
The fourth chapter explores the elaboration and subsequent extinction of the American attribution of sovereignty to Native American nations.
If people hunted these animals to extinction, the authors argue, the kill sites should appear along the border between proboscidean and human ranges.
Quite obviously, Weeraratne is in the pink of cricketing health right now and the Anthonians would surely have marked him down for early extinction.
Many species are in peril of extinction because of our destruction of their natural habitat.
For gold and silver particles smaller than 50 nm, the electric dipole moment dominates higher-order optical multipolar moments, and absorption exceeds scattering as a mechanism for optical extinction.
Many Paleozoic forms, now extinct, had very unusual morphologies.
One group of extinct crossopterygians, known as the rhipidistians, are the group thought by most to be the ones that successfully invaded land and gave rise to amphibians.
It means extinction of their entire system and they know that. Times, Sunday Times
This time, the ice age is ending and the animals realise a huge glacial dam is about to flood their valley, making them all extinct. The Sun
Some of the species of birds are extinct.
This phenomenon may also explain some of our anomalous fossil distributions and extinctions.
The Otago University's registrar, Augustus Hamilton, had pieced together a skeleton of the extinct bird and even added feathers.
Galapagos penguin is within a 'hairsbreadth' of extinction, according to a new study WN.com - Articles related to Darwin showed interest in Indian biodiversity: Book
The protected birds were once widespread in England but continual persecution led to their virtual extinction.
Hell, just a few years back I used to sweat over mass extinction from some terrorist biotoxin. The Atlantis Prophecy
Most of the species that remain - notably, all five living species of rhinoceros - are in danger of extinction; others, like the quagga, have already been driven to extinction.
A scout troop with a proud history has been told to raise £100,000 or face extinction.
Big species such as tuna and cod are disappearing, fished to virtual extinction in many places.
Indeed the most dramatic example of mass extinction known to biology has been caused by the introduction of an alien species.
Wolffish and conger eel have been depleted to the point of rarity, while angel sharks are now extinct in UK waters. Times, Sunday Times
An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
The nested hierarchy is pervasive in extant and extinct life, morphology and genomics. Beckwith on ID
Hedonistic dissipation well may have condemned the existing Europeans to infecundity and extinction, but that does not prevent Europe from getting new ones.
(Noah's flood-Gilgamesh's flood) Each similar flood is connected to the global basinal extinctions. California Literary Review
The archaeologists thus argue that the Clovis hunter should be exonerated as the cause of the North American extinctions.
In addition, the first planktonic graptolites evolved, though some species of graptolites became extinct.
In this shower the meteors appear to emanate from a point in the constellation of Gemini, hence the name Geminid and are associated with the asteroid Phaethon, suspected to be an extinct comet. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Biodiversity Features Mammal species of conservation significance include the possibly extinct wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), Eld's deer (Cervus eldii siamensis), Indochinese hog deer (Axis procinus annamiticus), and banteng (Bos javanicus). Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests
It distressed us to be cataloguing the last mortal remains of so many species that are on the verge of extinction, or have gone forever.
To an outsider, our raft would have appeared already to be on the verge of extinction.
Quartz commonly forms polycrystalline ribbons; undulatory extinction, dynamic recrystallization and grain-boundary migration are widespread.
One of the classic scientific debates, on a par with ‘nature vs. nurture,’ albeit far more obscure, is the question of what caused the great megafaunal extinction at the end of the Pleistocene.

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