extinction

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And a sense that this moral fable is playing out in other groups among the 600 or so mountain gorillas who are staving off extinction in their Virunga Mountains enclave.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Mr. Starmer’s party as a consequence now is racked by anxiety—which the May 7 election probably will exacerbate—that it’s on the verge of extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"This forces us to reconsider the impact of the end-Triassic extinction as something that wiped out not just the competitors to dinosaurs, but some long-standing dinosaur lineages themselves," Srivastava said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Another lamented that they cry at the end of every dino doc, even though they know the asteroid is coming and extinction is on the horizon.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

At the time the conventional wisdom about the dinosaur extinction was the same as it had been in Charles Lyell’s day a century earlier–namely that the dinosaurs had died out over millions of years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson