Sentence examples for a extinct from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a extinct" is not correct in English.
It should be "an extinct." You can use the correct phrase when referring to species or things that no longer exist.
Example: "The dodo is an extinct bird that was native to Mauritius."
Alternatives: "a vanished" or "a lost".

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Sinoceratops is a extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 72 to 66 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Shandong province in China.

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The exhibit also has a skull of an extinct horse, an extinct beaver, extinct sloths, and a gigantic skeleton of an Australian marsupial.

The skull of a champsosaur, an extinct diapsid related to the archosaurs.

A history of an extinct reptilian clade, the Choristodera: longevity, Lazarus taxa, and the fossil record.

THE photograph right shows a fossil pterosaur (an extinct flying reptile) called Darwinopterus.

Creating an animal 100% identical to an extinct species may be an impossible task.

At first blush, Entelognathusappears to be an ordinary placoderm, an extinct type of heavily armored fish.

European bison is an example of an extinct species, which was successfully reintroduced to wild nature.

The Nazis forced Sutzkever to catalogue Jewish treasures for a projected museum of an extinct race.

Scientists have successfully planted the DNA of an extinct tiger into a mouse.

[NBC] A meat-eating sponge, an "extinct" Galapagos tortoise: 12 interesting species discovered in 2012.

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