extinct
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Water voles use to be fairly common in the Hogsmill River catchment but the species, immortalised as Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, was "locally extinct" until 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers in Los Angeles have made a ribbiting new discovery at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum — an extinct amphibian from the ice age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
It might be those ploughshare tortoises, 75 of which were stolen from a successful Madagascar breeding facility in 1996, rendering them virtually extinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa was an extinct proto-crocodile identified by Yale University researchers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Take the housefly. If it hadn’t developed all those split- second reflexes it would have become extinct long ago.”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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