Sentence examples for extinct plants from inspiring English sources

Further, Ms. Heinen and her collaborators found that animals are not the only living beings affected by extinctions: when one or more species of frugivorous island animals goes extinct, plants are greatly affected too.

Ginkgo plans to make the scents by grafting DNA from extinct plants into yeast grown in its "DNA brewery," a large genetic engineering facility it operates in Boston.

Because vein density is directly measurable in fossils, these correlations provide new access to the physiology of extinct plants and how they may have impacted their environments.

The finding allowed the scientists to analyze the distribution of a variety of extinct plants, including lycopsid trees, across the forest floor.

"When cracked open they reveal fragments of extinct plants, fungi, and gut parasites," Martin Hechenleitner, a fellow author on the study said.

Aneurophyton, genus of extinct plants that lived during the Middle and Late Devonian epochs (about 398 to 359 million years ago) and is commonly considered a basal member of the progymnosperms the probable ancestors of seed plants.

The plant belongs to an extinct plant group, the Cladoxylopsida, which are interpreted to be intermediate between early land plants and the lineage that includes ferns and horsetails.

Now, researchers from Chuo University in Japan, Arizona State and the Queensland University of Technology in Australia have discovered that an extinct plant, one that dominated much of the landscape in the Permian Period about 250 million years ago, had motile sperm, as well.

But this little Suffolk meadow used mainly by dog walkers is the only known place in Britain where the wormwood moonshiner lives, an elusive beetle which emerges one hour after sunset to devour the seeds of a virtually extinct plant.

This is actually the third extinct plant that Mr Stroud has rediscovered and, for him, it is an ongoing and very personal mission.

In the final four states (joint extinction, plant extinct, pollinator extinct, and independent phenologies, Fig. 2G N), the mutualism is disrupted.