One type of vehicle that is virtually extinct is the caboose, or brake-van.
The Falkland Islands wolf, long extinct, is the only land-based mammal native to the islands.
"Imaginary lovers are a species most likely extinct," is the beady-eyed mimic.
And its sense that such irony is about to become extinct is the book's most astute aspect.
"Go big or go extinct," is the motto in Pacific Rim, a Warner Bros production in which giant monsters battle giant robots.
"Go big or go extinct!" is the poster tagline facing audiences as they file into the cinema for Guillermo del Toro's monster-mash blockbuster.
One of others to become extinct is the St Helena Giant Earwig, the world's largest known earwig which reaches a length of up to 80mm.
Also extinct is the Christmas Island pipistrelle, a tiny bat, and while its demise was a complicated tragedy, wolf snakes and introduced giant centipedes are implicated.
Surprisingly, the odds of sprouters becoming locally extinct were the same as non-sprouters, despite sprouters being widely regarded as representative of a persistence niche [35].
A subspecies of otter, Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli, thought to be extinct, was recently sighted in the marshes.
