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Sentence Examples We were pleased to read recently that efforts are being made to re-establish an almost extinct species in Kerry. Breeding records show that for four years previous to this, experts worried that the distinctive toad was extinct altogether in the area. I'm sure he's right that the giant panda could go extinct without materially affecting human existence. England will become Germanized or Americanized by this process alone, and the English gentleman will become as extinct as the British yeoman. Investigators of Romania's so-called Cave with Bones have also discovered skeletal remains of extinct cave bears and wild goats. The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce. The figures at the top left and bottom right are dire wolves, extinct relatives of wolves and dogs. Languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate which makes language endangerment the area of the greatest current concern to linguists. Cloning technologies may save endangered species or even bring back extinct ones. If domesticated flocks are worthy of eagle protection, surely nearly extinct endemic taxa are as well. His study, conducted over five years of intensive examination, reveal that the toad will be extinct within two years. This study indicates a habitat and ecological polarity of this extinct species different from its nearest living relatives. First described by explorers around 1600, the dodo was extinct fewer than 80 years later. The trilobites comprise a major class-level clade of extinct marine arthropods characterized by calcareous, multisclerite, dorsal exoskeletons. Fossil salamanders are known from most extant families, as well as four extinct families. If the trend continues, soon enough the American hunter will be as extinct as the passenger pigeon. It became extinct but has been revived as a rich cream cheese, made from double cream and given a crust of toasted pinhead oatmeal. Today, many of these species are ecologically extinct from their former ranges and large mammals are absent from most coastal ecosystems. The Victorian Bird Collection includes a diverse array of specimens from around the world including rare and extinct species. Five species are now extinct and 15 have been lost from over half their range. Show More Sentences Big Bone Cave was certainly mined for fertilizer in 1884, when excavation by a local farmer unearthed bones of an extinct giant sloth. Here Tulu language, one of the five main Dravidian languages of the South, with its extinct script is spoken. The order Cetacea comprises two extant sub-orders and one extinct sub-order. Although too late to save the passenger pigeon, which became extinct in 1914, they preserved the bison. Two hundred years ago the roe deer was extinct in England and Wales, the victim of over-hunting and forest clearance. Cougar populations dwindled until the 1970s, when the big cat became nearly extinct in the state. Clearly visible within the imprint were the remains of trilobites, extinct marine arthropods. By the end of the Eocene, modern orders and families replaced the archaic fauna of mostly extinct groups with no living descendants. The club released almost 50 partridge into the wild this year, thus re-stocking a breed which has become almost extinct in the area. Many extinct or vanishing Indian languages are the only evidence we have of the long migrations and complex histories of particular peoples. Many escaped plantations and slave ships then took shelter into dark mountain jungles where Jamaica's extinct Arawak natives once inhabited. The most abundant insects are heteropterous Belostomatidae, Corixidae, Naucoridae, and extinct Enicocoridae. In the blessed Yaak, however, not a single mammal has gone extinct since the end of the Ice Age. The bucardo, a Pyrenean mountain goat, became extinct in January, when the last of its kind was put out of its lonely misery by a falling tree. In the early 1990s the greater mouse-eared bat became the first British mammal to become extinct since the wolf. It is feared that the continued uncontrolled exploitation of the mpingo tree will cause it to become commercially extinct within a few decades. In South Africa, where an antelope called the bluebuck went extinct 200 years ago, three other big mammals have been brought back from the brink. Along the banks we caught sight of both of the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa. Many early mammal taxa were superficially rodent-like, such as the extinct multituberculates. In at least seven cases the species were extinct in the wild at the time of reintroduction. Show More Sentences Still, is it unethical or immoral to bring an extinct species back from the dead? But the journey, which leads to the discovery of shards of ancient pottery and the bones of extinct sloths, makes for a story of great suspense. By one count, 500 extinct spider species have been found in amber from Europe's Baltic region alone. The fossilized sap from sweetgum trees, containing ancient and extinct insects, is prized as amber. The ancient Herodotus thought the Amazons did exist, but were extinct by the time that he lived. The Otago University's registrar, Augustus Hamilton, had pieced together a skeleton of the extinct bird and even added feathers. Trace fossils provide important data on the paleoenvironmental distribution and behavior of extinct animals. In fact, anatomically modern humans existed at least 160,000 years ago, and Neanderthals became extinct only 30,000 years ago. Unfortunately, chinchillas are nearly extinct in the wild, so little is known of their behavior under natural conditions. Many of the extinct marsupial megafauna were large, herbivorous browsers, some weighing several tons. Welsh, is a Celtic language belonging to the Brythonic group consisting of Breton, Welsh, and the extinct Cornish. Malick hired a linguist to translate the script and to teach his native actors to speak Algonquin, a language extinct for the past 200 years. In the same site they also found bones from Komodo dragons and an extinct pygmy elephant called Stegodon. Before the captive kiwi were released the iconic birds had been extinct in the southern North Island for well over a century. Two new extinct species are named and two of the mustelids may represent extinct new species as well. Many scientists believe that vaquita will become extinct because the genetic pool is too small for effective reproduction. These turned out to be remains from the tentacles of extinct squid-like belemnites. There is quite a lot of information on the now nearly extinct Vedda of Sri Lanka but most of it is going back to colonial days. Along the banks we caught sight of both the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa. On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump. Show More Sentences Glossopteris, for example, was an extinct seed fern with distinctive leaf patterns. This extinct order of giant scale trees includes relatives of the modern quillworts. Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags. 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. Given the small size of the prey hunted by modern lynxes, it is not likely that this extinct species was a predator of large mammals. The insect-eating common butterwort, previously thought to be extinct in the region, has also been noted. These lines were declared extinct if all three consecutive attempts to transfer worms from the backup plate resulted in nonviable worms. There are many biological and ecological systems that eventually go extinct yet appear to be stable over any reasonable timescale. The Sumatran rhinoceros is the last surviving species in the same group as the extinct woolly rhinoceros. His efforts have been successful and especially notable is the restoration of the extinct cahows. A crocodilian is any member of an order of reptiles that includes crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials, and related extinct forms. Most jawless species went extinct long ago and are known only from the fossil record. In traditional classifications, the hagfish, lampreys, and extinct armored jawless fish are grouped together in the paraphyletic Class Agnatha. Dada is as extinct as the dodo, and absurdism gave Surrealism a different spin. The first DNA to be extracted from an ancient specimen was from 150-year-old tissues from the quagga, an extinct relative of the zebra. She has also been working with Yellowstone National Park to help realize her pet project on extinct species. My major interest is the chalicotheres, a group of extinct clawed herbivorous perissodactyls. She thought that the knights and their chivalrous code had already gone extinct in Europe and from the rest of the world. Creodonts are an extinct group of carnivorous mammals that were long thought to be the ancestors of modern Carnivora. Searching the Siberian hinterlands for a tiger moth that is surely extinct by now is his idea of fun. Show More Sentences The research team found that the nene and two extinct species of Hawaiian geese were all closely related to one other genetically. Folks, give a break to your sob serials and melodramatic movies this Sunday and stay hooked to Discovery as an extinct tiger comes to life. Evidence for the hemichordate affinity of the extinct graptolites has been steadily amassing. Many larger mammals such as giraffes, striped hyenas, western kob, bushbuck and sitatunga are now considered extinct in the area around the lake. Conodonts are an extinct group of marine organisms whose preserved skeletal parts consist of tiny phosphatic tooth-like elements. The once nearly extinct white oryx, an antelope, has been successfully reintroduced into the wild in Oman. Sometimes a species has gone extinct in the wild, but seeds or even living specimens remain in herbaria and botanical gardens. It was about twenty years ago when the world became extinct of free-living banshees, unicorns, centaurs and other creatures. Each atoll is the topmost point of a submarine pillar of limestone extending several thousand feet from an extinct volcano. As an extinct animal, the quagga is well qualified to act as a tour guide for a paleontological museum. All Basset titles became abeyant or extinct before publication of the series began. But the related species of one extinct group, the glyptodonts, had a single-piece carapace similar to that of tortoises. Alas, I have a shock for Mr Hepworth if he thinks cars and any other vehicles using petrol or diesel will become extinct when the oil runs out. He also included several extinct genera in this family, some of which have a pyramidal spire. The ancient hoofed condylarths gave way to more modern ungulates, and became extinct before the end of the epoch. This is a living reef resting on an extinct volcano cone which comes up about three kilometres from the ocean floor. There the articulated skeletons of many extinct mammals have been preserved in a bed of volcanic ash. Scientists at University College London studied DNA and skeletal remains of the extinct giant deer, or Irish elk, to construct its family tree. The fur and feather trade has caused some species to become extinct and pushed others to the brink. But populations of frogs, butterflies, ocean corals, and polar birds have already gone extinct because of climate change, Parmesan said. Show More Sentences Grey partridge are down to a handful of coveys and look as if they will become extinct unless concerted effort is made. Fossils are often not ancestors of extant taxa, but instead may be extinct sister groups to modern taxa or clades. The Western Branch of the East African Great Rift Valley is pocketed with craters of extinct or dormant volcanoes. It is much more likely that it is merely a rare or previously extinct language. But it is now an endangered species and could well become extinct through cross-breeding. Endangered or extinct species such as the small panda and the monk seal are on display. The sarcopterygians include the lungfish, together with the crossopterygians, which are composed of coelacanths and the extinct rhipidistians. Only genomic DNA, however, can help scientists understand the functional differences between extinct and living species. These affections are leaving the world like the colors of extinct birds, like the songs of a dead language. Experts believe the extinct birds were meat-eaters because their beaks resemble those of predatory eagles and scavenging vultures. At press time, the extinct civilization of super-beings was unavailable for comment. Named Akidolestes, the extinct animal had jaws, teeth, and forelimbs that identify it as a close relative of modern placental and marsupial mammals. There is some agreement that both living and extinct cycads were derived from seed ferns, but paleobotanists still debate exactly if, when, and how this happened. No mammal of today has a comparable anatomy of the limbs, but several extinct groups like the Eocene to Pleistocene chalicotheres show similar adaptations. You are seeing a live shot of Taj, a nearly extinct white Bengal tiger. Still, just to be on the safe side, the tuba, the xylophone, the viola da gamba and the virtually extinct tenor guitar make excellent choices in this area. Ammonoids are descendants of the extinct, primitive coiled nautiloids and they are extinct relatives of modern squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus. Within 40,000 years Neanderthals had become extinct throughout Europe. The hot programming language of today may be extinct tomorrow. Learning to speak an extinct indigenous language should be an enormous benefit to Aboriginal kids in getting a job in twenty-first century Australia. Show More Sentences By the mid 19th century the great bustard was extinct in Britain. Purely by way of example, the image at left shows the nomenclature used for notoungulates, an extinct group of ungulates endemic to the early Cenozoic of South America. Lionel Peirce had apparently come from old money and had the ability to cart his family all over the globe in the search for elusive and near extinct animals. Most perissodactyl lineages went extinct in the late Eocene or Oligocene. The newspapers are considered a standard for written Hawaiian which was nearly extinct a few years ago, but has re-emerged as a language of daily use and scholarship. The cave bear became extinct at the end of the late glacial period. The Arabian house will be home to the scymitar oryx, a medium sized antelope with long curved horns believed to be extinct in the wild, and other desert dwellers. The talk in the lecture theatre on Saturday at 1.30 pm will look at living animals as well as extinct species revealed in some of the rarest fossils. Wilson is a natural orator, and the finest passages in the book are elegiac songs of life and wistful recollections of lost habitats, extinct flora and fauna. Because of the unusual pattern of speciation preceding extinction, the region contained a mix of extinct and living species through the period of change. What kinds of extinct species had once belonged to the groups? Most paleontologists now agree this member of an extinct group of birds is not the ancestor of any group of modern birds, nor is it a link between reptiles and birds. 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. So this is a time period where gymnospermous plants predominated, including cycadioids which look like modern cycads, and various groups of extinct conifers and seed ferns. And like modern ostriches and emus, and extinct moas and elephant birds, these ancient long-necked pinheads swallowed stones which remained in the stomach to aid in digestion. Some flightless birds, such as living penguins, puffins, and rails, and the extinct auks and phororhacoids, are classified in the Neognathae along with most flying birds. Pteranodon was not a Dinosaur, but an extinct kind of flying reptile, or Pterosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous, from 90 to 65 million years ago. The one true wild horse Przewalski's horse is considered extinct in the wild by some, and at best is alive only through captive breeding programs. Prior to 1990 the species had been decimated by a combination of habitat loss and capture of birds for the pet trade, and was considered extinct in the wild. The two extinct species of Metasequoia were adapted to distinctly different swamp habitats, as are living dawn redwood compared with swamp cypress. Show More Sentences 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. However, the paucity of modern cycad trunks to cycadeoid trunks in the fossil record suggests that the modern cycad trunks did not fossilize as readily as the extinct variety. Our data set includes only fossilized specimens and all of them are from an extinct genus of class Stenolaemata, the dominant Paleozoic class of bryozoans. Clovis points from the American west have been associated with mammoth hunting, while Folsom points have been found with an extinct form of bison. A famous case was his study of the Irish elk, a very large extinct deer with enormous antlers, much greater in proportion to the animal's size than is seen in modern deer. The Irish elk finally went extinct when the antlers became so large that the animals could no longer hold up their heads, or got entangled in the trees. Radial consequent streams cut deep canyons into the flanks of the extinct shield volcano, and these canyons are opened out into deep, steep-walled amphitheaters. But it is sad that in these days of relative prosperity that the traditional Easter feiseanna are in danger of becoming extinct because of a lack of cash. Farmers began developing more land, establishing wheat production and other crops in areas which traditionally were home to Cape mountain zebra and the extinct quagga. Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting. There are now fewer than 30,000 orang-utans, and it is likely that they will become extinct in the wild in as little as 20 years' time if this decline continues. The preserve, dubbed Pleistocene Park, could feature not only mammoths, but also extinct species of deer, woolly rhinoceroses, and even saber-toothed cats, he said. Led by experienced guides, Jasber also climbed the extinct Losimingori volcano, walked through the ancient oasis of Silela Forest and visited a Masai village. All groups of pelycosaurs went extinct by the end of the Permian. If Black rhino were to become another creature on the growing list of extinct species, it would be a loss for us all. Bringing Them Back to Life Carl Zimmer, National Geographic The revival of an extinct species is no longer a fantasy. The coleoids include modern squids, cuttlefish, octopuses, and the argonauts or paper-nautilus, together with extinct groups such as the belemnites. The living armadillos of South America bore a striking resemblance to fossil glyptodonts, extinct armored mammals whose fossils occurred in the same area. Related agnathans with external armour occur widely from the Late Silurian to the Devonian, but they all became extinct before the start of the Carboniferous. It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago. Show More Sentences A descendant of the now extinct Aztec, the language of the ancient Aztec empire, Nahuatl is spoken today by approximately 1 million people, mainly in Mexico. The back cover claims it presents the wonderful story of the elephant, from the extinct mammoths of the Ice Age to their present day battle for survival. Possibly extinct in Uruguay, the remaining maned wolves live in Bolivia and Brazil, with a handful in Argentina and Paraguay, and just a single pair in Peru. In the first place, the Lapps speak a Finnic dialect which is classified with the extinct Chude, spoken in the early centuries of the present era in Finland. There are several extinct volcanoes on Mars, four of which are vast shield volcanoes far bigger than any on Earth. A group of cynodonts, the trithelodonts were becoming rare and eventually became extinct at the end of this epoch. Species which depended on photosynthesis declined or became extinct as atmospheric particles blocked solar energy. The four residual categories are expected to become extinct with the passage of time. Some extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, evolved to be viviparous and had no requirement to return to land. Although the language is extinct in Sicily, it has developed into what is now the Maltese language on the islands of Malta today. And there was me thinking parkies had gone the way of mammoths, matrons and other extinct species. While the Pacific states are the most volcanically active areas, extinct volcanoes and lava flows are found throughout most of the West. Others, including horses, camels and American cheetahs became extinct in North America. These mammals became extinct when the glacial period Age ended about 11,700 years ago. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. A total of 290 bird species have been recorded on the Farnes, including in the 1760s, an example of the now extinct great auk. Traditional dialects are now mostly extinct in Denmark, with only the oldest generations still speaking them. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. In all of these places except Iceland and the Faroes, Old Norse speakers went extinct or were absorbed into the local population. Therefore, he did not include grammatical categories which were extinct in all dialects. Show More Sentences The extinct medullosans produced a third type of resin, which is often found as amber within their veins. Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics. In 1978, Paleontologist Leigh Van Valen named over 20 taxa of extinct mammals after Tolkien lore in a single paper. As of 2005, 16 extant or recently extinct subspecies are recognized by the general scientific community. They are extinct in the British Isles, extremely threatened in France and Spain, and in trouble over most of Central Europe. Because he had no heirs, both titles became extinct upon his death in 1626, at 65 years of age. However, this cannot be ruled out as an extinct population of brown bear, based on the inconclusiveness of the only known fossil. Przewalski's horse is still found today, though it is an endangered species and for a time was considered extinct in the wild. Since the rate of extinction has increased, many extant species may become extinct before they are described. Although Latin is an extinct language with very few contemporary fluent speakers, it remains in use in many ways. The first is simply the number of species that normally go extinct over a given period of time. For example, at the background rate one species of bird will go extinct every estimated 400 years. As parks became increasingly threadbare and the parkie an extinct breed, visitors were left feeling insecure, and the future looked grim. Several species of rice rat have become extinct since the 19th century, probably through habitat loss and the introduction of alien species. The Redwall series also has the Badger Lords, who rule the extinct volcano fortress of Salamandastron and are renowned as fierce warriors. Although the species as a whole is thriving, it is endangered and extinct in many areas. Only species extinct since Great Britain was separated from mainland Europe are included. The species is now extinct in much of Western Europe, in Mexico and much of the United States. The subfamily Carduelinae includes 18 extinct Hawaiian honeycreepers and the extinct Bonin grosbeak. However, the present diversity of very recent origin suggests that this lineage may have nearly gone extinct in the recent past. Show More Sentences It may merely suggest that Genyornis became extinct at a later date than previously determined. The skull of a newly identified species of extinct toothed whale may help scientists piece together when echolocation evolved underwater. He built his church across the water from an extinct volcano, next to the Molendinar Burn, where the present medieval cathedral now stands. As some of the ethnic groups are very small, their native languages are in danger of becoming extinct in the next decades. The vile trade led to sloth bears being declared extinct in Bangladesh last year. Scientists have been concerned that human activities could cause more plants and animals to become extinct than any point in the past. The birds, which overwinter in Africa and return to their UK breeding grounds each spring, became extinct in the UK for more than 40 years. The tribe is now extinct but evidence of its culture is preserved in museum, historical and archaeological records. When Ambrose Dudley died in 1590 the title of Earl of Warwick became extinct for the second time. In each great region of the world the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. The extinct pine species Pinus matthewsii has been described from Pliocene sediments in the Yukon areas of the refugium. Over the last 100 years, whitetails have gone from almost extinct to overabundant and now to declining. Most Arabic pagans became virtually extinct during Muhammad's era by way of Islamization. His male line issue became extinct in 1747, though the title went through female line. They became extinct at the same time as the appearance of man, and it is assumed humans hunted them for food. The millerettids, protorothyrids, and pareiasaurs became extinct in the late Permian period and the procolophonoids during the Triassic. Although it is nearly extinct today, some older Namibians still have some knowledge of it. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many extinct groups included quadrupedal species, and some were able to shift between these stances. The Martinique amazon, Amazona martinicana, is an extinct species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. Cranial modifications like horns and crests are common dinosaurian traits, and some extinct species had bony armor. Show More Sentences Most of these other animals became extinct in the Triassic, in one of two events. The stegosaurians appear to have gone extinct at some point in the late early Cretaceous or early late Cretaceous. The discovery that birds are a type of dinosaur showed that dinosaurs in general are not, in fact, extinct as is commonly stated. Additionally, isotope ratios can provide much information about the ecological conditions under which extinct animals lived. Georges Cuvier came to believe that most if not all the animal fossils he examined were remains of extinct species. The Wrangel Island population became extinct around the same time the island was settled by prehistoric humans. Here you can sample fresh local abalone, an edible sea snail in a mother-ofpearl shell rendered almost extinct by overfishing. The Hyolitha are a class of extinct animals with a shell and operculum that may be molluscs. Several animals became extinct in Bangladesh during the last century, including the one horned and two horned rhinoceros and common peafowl. By comparing the anatomies of both modern and extinct species, paleontologists can infer the lineages of those species. It includes the living genus Osteolaemus as well as the extinct species Voay robustus and Rimasuchus lloydi. This product was developed at Dhosi Hill, an extinct volcano in northern India. Various species are predicted to become extinct in the near future, among them the rhinoceros, primates, pangolins, and giraffes. Cynodonts, extinct mamma-like reptiles that gave rise to true mammals, bore just such a trough. The extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws. Aboriginal people seem to have lived a long time in the same environment as the now extinct Australian megafauna. The ancient Italic languages that are now extinct include Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene. Many extinct hominids have been studied to help understand the relationship between modern humans and the other extant hominids. A similar legend claims that the now extinct Saponi of Person County, North Carolina, are descended from the English colonists of Roanoke Island. The skeleton shows a remarkable relative shortening of the legs, thus parallelling many extinct insular deer species. Show More Sentences If eventually no one speaks the language at all, it becomes an extinct language. It became extinct about the same time as the rest of the glacial age megafauna. Some species that have become extinct elsewhere in Australia, such as the numbat, persist in the southwest. By around 1400 serfdom was virtually extinct in England, replaced by the form of tenure called copyhold. Subsequently, in the 10th and 11th centuries, Latin sources routinely confused the Rus' with the extinct East Germanic tribe of Rugians. Norn had also been a spoken language in Caithness but had probably become extinct there by the 15th century, replaced by Scots. However, because noble lines went extinct naturally, some number of ennoblements was necessary. Cornish had become extinct by the 19th century but has been the subject of language revitalization since the 20th century. At Punta Alta he made a major find of gigantic fossils of extinct mammals, then known from only a very few specimens. The other two primary predators of northern Africa, the Atlas bear and Barbary leopard, are now extinct and critically endangered, respectively. These animals may have evolved from the extinct family Palaeomerycidae which might also have been the ancestor of deer. At least 17 species of lemur have become extinct since humans arrived on Madagascar, all of which were larger than the surviving lemur species. Historically, Newfoundland was also home to unique varieties of French and Irish, as well as the extinct Beothuk language. In fact, an ancient extinct reef exists half a km seaward of the present one, 30 m below sea level. Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants related to conifers, ginkgos, cycads, and seed ferns. Over 100 species of plants and animals have become extinct and many more are threatened. Some local dialects, such as the Hukumina and Kayeli, became extinct in the second half of the 20th century. They are volcanoes, and the mountains of the neighboring Lease Islands are extinct volcanoes. Iran lost all its Asiatic lions and the now extinct Caspian tigers by the earlier part of the 20th century. Many species of Pleistocene megafauna, like the woolly rhinoceros, became extinct around the same time period. Show More Sentences Nahuatl became extinct in the states of Jalisco and Colima during the 20th century. This line registers the water level of an extinct lake which existed until relatively recent times. As a result, the Pizarro line survived Hernando's death, though currently it is extinct in male line. The Pizarro line survived Hernando's death, although it is extinct in the male line. The pygmy mammoth and the San Miguel Island Spotted Skunk are two of the extinct species. The mtDNA of extinct Irish brown bears is particularly close to polar bears. Their extinct relatives included the Kotts, Assans, Arins, Baikots, and Pumpokols who lived further upriver to the south. Yet between 10,000 and 7,600 years ago, the horse became extinct in North America and rare elsewhere. The subspecies was presumed extinct in the wild between 1969 and 1992, while a small breeding population survived in zoos around the world. It survived into the historical era, but became extinct in 1909, when the last captive died in a Russian zoo. Of the six extinct species, five went extinct in the Quaternary extinction event. Fingallian or the Fingal dialect is an extinct variety of English formerly spoken in Fingal, Ireland. In Romania, beavers became extinct in 1824, but were reintroduced in 1998 along the Olt River, spreading to other rivers in Covasna County. The vile trade led to sloth bears, called bhalu by the locals, being declared extinct in Bangladesh last year. Elizabeth, the Blue Lagoon in Portland, believed to be the crater of an extinct volcano. These dialects are now extinct or nearly extinct due to improved communications and population movements. There are 4 extinct volcanoes in the South Island, all located on the east coast. Others such as corncockle and darnel are now virtually extinct in Britain, although both were locally common until the early 20th Century. The nearest relative of the Khoe family may be the extinct Kwadi language of Angola. Nearly extinct in the wild, the Chinese alligator has for centuries had a prominent place in Chinese culture and mythology. Show More Sentences The park has active and extinct volcanoes, a diverse range of ecosystems and some spectacular landscapes. Welsh emerged in the 6th century from Common Brittonic, the common ancestor of Welsh, Breton, Cornish and the extinct language known as Cumbric. Some previously extinct birds, such as the golden eagle, been reintroduced in about the year 2000 after decades of extirpation. When the male line of the Warennes became extinct in the 14th century, the earldom was inherited by the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel. They suspect it is related to extinct organisms that lived 600 million years ago and may have been an early failed attempt at multicellular life. Circa 3 000 BC, the craters of extinct volcanoes in Arabia were used as reservoirs by farmers for their irrigation water. Flamingos and pelicans were once found along the southern shores of the North Sea, but became extinct over the 2nd millennium. We are synapsid tetrapods, a group of reptiles that almost went extinct 200 million years ago in competition with the better-designed dinosaurs. But the Northern white rhino is believed to be extinct in the wild and only a few remain in a sanctuary in Kenya. If wildebeest had evolved with thick white fur and blue spots, they would probably now be an extinct species. Beckwith studies the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. She could stand on a rocky surface, scoop up a gloveful of dirt, and explore extinct volcanoes and ancient canyons. Its nearest living relative is the sunbittern of the New World tropics, although it appears closer kin to extinct New Zealand birds. Unfortunately I do not possess sufficient geognostic knowledge to be able to set this cavern down as an extinct volcano. When the doctor challenges the assumption of extinct species, his comments have an extrapolative force. But an extinct language can re-appear, UNESCO says, and this is what the Yaaku are trying to achieve. Scientists know that these extinct Proboscideans widely roamed North America before their extinction. Barytherium is a genus of an extinct family of primitive proboscidean that lived during the late Eocene and early Oligocene ages in North Africa. The 84proof spirit is triple-distilled in pot stills from premium wheat and soft spring water drawn from near an extinct volcano. Among other things it contains placoderms, an extinct group that includes some of the earliest jawed fish. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of extinct? Words that rhyme with extinct What is the adjective for extinct? What is the noun for extinct? Translations for extinct Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words exterritoriality externship externs external validity externals externally extinction extinctions extinctive extinct language extinguish extinguishable 7-letter Words Starting With e ex ext exti extin extinc