Sentence examples for extinct living from inspiring English sources

Between both battles was a long period of erasure, in which Indians came to be seen as functionally extinct, living on celluloid and in history books, perhaps, as place names and car models, but not in the larger public consciousness.

The bird, which is extinct, lived only in Florida, not in New Jersey.

Molecular information like this can help to build better evolutionary family trees between extinct and living organisms.

The lycophytes represent a wide range of extinct and living plants that have contributed important data on evolutionary trends in primitive vascular plants.

The scientists explain their process: how they poke around bones and find links between extinct and living creatures, the connections between Big Al and crocodiles and ostriches.

The order Columbiformes is divided into the Raphidae, a family of extinct birds that embraces the dodo and the two species of solitaires, and the Columbidae, a family made up of extinct and living pigeons and doves.

A sculptor under Owen's direction (Waterhouse Hawkins) created life-size models of these two genera, and in 1854 they were displayed together with models of other extinct and living reptiles, such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and crocodiles.

Small but interesting cultures are represented by the Greek Orthodox Votes and Izhora Ingrians, both nearly extinct groups living near the head of the Gulf of Finland in an area once called Ingria, the Veps (living near Lake Onega), and the Karelians (living in central Russia, Karelia, and Finland), as well as the Ludes in Olonets, who speak a transition dialect.

This controversial finding emerged from a phylogenetic tree showing the evolutionary relationships of extinct and living apes and Old World monkeys.

The 700 attendees, a mixture of researchers and members of the public, heard talks on cultural transmission in fish, meerkats, birds, and monkeys, as well as in extinct and living humans.

[As a measure of how carefully Darwin read Lyell (through all editions not just while on the Beagle), Darwin wrote to Lyell in 1844 complaining that Richard Owen was claiming authorship of the "Law of Succession" of extinct and modern allied species and reminding Lyell that he (i.e., Lyell) had himself noted such sequences in his discussion of extinct and living species of marsupials in Australia.