Sentence examples for extinct great from inspiring English sources

These birds, the Mancallinae, were undoubtedly flightless and more specialized for underwater wing propulsion than was the now extinct great auk.

The extinct great auk of the North Atlantic is one of the best-known examples of such a flightless bird; the rail family also is noted for having many flightless species living on islands in the Pacific and the South Atlantic.

There are two stuffed specimens of the extinct great auk, an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa and a large collection of specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants, cave bears and hyena from Kirkdale Cave dated to the Quaternary period, around 125,000 years ago.

The penguins, originally conflated with some auks for their morphological similarities (the now extinct great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was the original bird called penguin, from the Welsh pen gwyin, for white head [ 31]), and have comparable variation in the traits under study here.

The lesser bilby is already extinct and greater bilbies have been on the endangered list for many years, largely due to feral cats and foxes.

As early as the 1840s, whitetail deer and wild turkeys were disappearing, then the passenger pigeon and the heath hen became extinct, and the great buffalo herd was reduced to a tiny fraction of its former size.

Last year's announcement that the Vietnamese Javan rhino had gone extinct has lent greater urgency to their efforts.

A new study of historic climate patterns suggests that, as our current world warms, slower-moving critters may go extinct in far greater numbers than their speedier counterparts.

Associate professor of physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Of dinosaurs and skeptics Given the May 21 letter to the editor disputing the very real and observable effects of climate change, it's apparent that not all the dinosaurs became extinct during the last great catastrophe.

The Permian-Triassic extinction was Earth's most destructive past great mass extinction in which 95% of all species went extinct (Erwin 2001; Jablonski 1995).

Add to this the potential difficulties seen in many clones (ex: congenital defects, abnormal development, reduced immunity, or vulnerability to aging or disease; see (Poland and Bishop 2002; Wells 2005; Cibelli et al. 2002)) which may be greater for extinct species with less-intact DNA.