Sentence examples for extinct about from inspiring English sources

Pterosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, at around the same time as the extinction of dinosaurs, but when they were extant, the largest of them were "the largest creatures to have flown".

The last surviving fully terrestrial genus, Mekosuchus, became extinct about 3000 years ago after humans had arrived on its Pacific islands, making the extinction possibly anthropogenic.

These close relatives of modern humans became extinct about 30,000 years ago.

And the set is carved from the tusks of the woolly mammoths, found in northern Siberia, where the animals became extinct about 10,000 years ago.

Those robust but small-brain species continued to live in Africa until their line became extinct about one million years ago.

Last week at a conference in Washington, scientists from Australia reported on their attempt to bring back a weird frog, the Southern gastric brooding frog, that went extinct about a quarter century ago.

Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disappear in the next 50 years, not 25-50%, as has so often been predicted.

went "extinct" at about this time.

Italian bears are almost extinct, with about 35 bears living around the Dolomites.

The traditional western is not yet extinct, surviving, just about, on television.

But all-ages clubs like the Empress, rare to begin with, are just about extinct.