extinct
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Studies indicate that the species - which was only discovered in 2017 - will go extinct if it continues to lose more than 1% of its population annually.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
A new, though extinct, species of whale was also identified among the nearly 500 skeletons found up to 7,000 metres deep along a 1,200 kilometre corridor of bones in the Indian Ocean west of Australia.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Poços de Caldas, a city built in the caldera of an extinct volcano, has become one of the centers of the rush.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
To test these assumptions, we analysed more than 500 teeth from 27 primate species, both extinct and living.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
About 80 percent of the big wild mammals of the Americas became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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