Sentence examples for extinct until from inspiring English sources

"As a matter of fact, it was extinct until I came along".

The tree was thought extinct until it was rediscovered in a gorge in Australia in 1994.

It was thought to be extinct until a bird was rediscovered in 1948.

Indeed, scientists believed that Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni had become extinct until George was discovered on Pinta in 1972.

And to think this tree was thought extinct until 1945, when it was found growing happily in China.

This brilliantly coloured, bizarre-looking bird was thought extinct until conservationists discovered a tiny population in 1948.

It is a "Latimeria chalumnae" or coelacanth, thought to be an extinct species until one was found in 1938.

It was thought to be extinct forever until a small colony was found on Ball's Pyramid, a volcanic outcrop just off the island in 2001.

The whales, one of just two populations of gray whales in the world, were thought to be extinct here until a 1995 study showed that 106 of them were feeding in a shallow lagoon off the northeastern coast of Sakhalin.

However, the forest patch was cleared to grow biofuels, and the species was feared to have gone extinct again, until it was re-rediscovered in 2011.

One of the notable plant fossils is the Metasequoia (dawn redwood), a genus thought to have gone extinct worldwide until it was discovered alive in China in the early 20th century.