extinction
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White rhinos were close to extinction in the early 1900s, with fewer than 50 thought to remain in Africa.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Calling them lost is not a prediction of extinction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Jon Rosenfield, science director of the nonprofit group San Francisco Baykeeper, called it “an extinction plan.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
In the most-anticipated securities filing ever, Claude parent Anthropic laid out a potential path to huge profits and growth, but also to human extinction if its AI technology goes haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Even the clumsy, unattractive, and bad-tasting dodos have occupied people’s thoughts far more in extinction than they ever did when they were alive.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
New research suggests that their preference for warm environments may have given them a crucial advantage during one of Earth's greatest mass extinctions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Many of the culprits then were the same as those still driving extinctions across the nation today.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Australian government's official extinctions list sits at 67, but researchers are confident at least 100 plant and animal species have been lost forever.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
"These extinctions were driven by relatively rapid climate shifts and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions," says co-author Dr. Paul Scofield, Senior Curator of Natural History at Canterbury Museum.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Thirdly, mass extinctions akin to the archetypal Australian decimation occurred again and again in the ensuing millennia—whenever people settled another part of the Outer World.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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