Sentence examples for extinct status from inspiring English sources

Despite its extinct status in the wild, the Fukien sample contains much higher levels of mtDNA diversity than any of the Ryukyu populations.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has now declared the species extinct, changing its status from Critically Endangered.

However, the airline's Wikipedia entry states that it "ceased operations on 14 May 2010," and the online AeroTransport Data Bank gives its status as "extinct".

To further complicate matters, the wild ancestor of domestic horses seems to be extinct since the agriotypic status of the few surviving Przewalski's horses is under debate [7].

A showcase for cars that even the most careful scrutinizers of the automotive fossil record have assumed to be either extinct or deserving of that status, the Concours entries compete in classes like "Rust Belt American Junk" and "Soul-Sucking Japanese Appliance".

But there was good news for Israel's Yarkon bream (Acanthobrama telavivensis), a fish species whose status went from extinct in the wild to vulnerable as a result of a captive breeding programme and release of 9,000 fish into restored habitat in the country's rivers.

The antiquity of the Neanderthal skeleton and its status as an extinct kind of human were not immediately accepted.

Studies on freshwater fish and amphibians suggest a third to half of the species in some tropical freshwaters is either extinct or endangered, but the status of the freshwater crabs is not known.

Our results urge caution when estimating the mass of extinct species, particularly when the ontogenetic status of the specimen is difficult to determine.

Although infectious diseases contribute to the extinct and critically endangered UICN red list status for only 12% of listed species [11], devastating effect of diseases on population demography have been reported for various taxa (see review in [12]).

But the melomys were last seen in 2009, and after an extensive search for the animal in 2014, a report has recommended its status be changed from "endangered" to "extinct".