extinct
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In 2002, Turner opened Ted’s Montana Grill, he said, to help recover an animal once nearly extinct, putting bison on menus in over a dozen states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The discovery highlights the risks of reconstructing an extinct animal from only a small part of its skeleton.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
It could also be an amynodon, or “swamp rhino,” a member of an extinct family of of large-bodied herbivores that are distantly related to rhinos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Prof Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist regarded as a "godfather" of AI development, warned powerful AI systems could even make humans extinct - although his fear was dismissed by his fellow "AI godfather", Yann LeCun.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The donkey and especially the toad, the creatures most important to him, had vanished, had become extinct; only rotting fragments, an eyeless head here, part of a hand there, remained.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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