Sentence examples for most famous extinct from inspiring English sources
Even before the age of bioengineering, Ectopistes migratorius could seem as much science-fiction fable as fact, which is why it is good to have Greenberg's book, the first major work in sixty years about the most famous extinct species since the dodo.
Meanwhile, across the Tasman Sea, the 4m high moas of New Zealand had long since been hunted to extinction by the Maori when they were identified in 1844 from fossil remains by Richard Owen, namer of the most famous of all extinct beasts, the dinosaur.
(Their most famous member was the extinct Irish elk).
The most famous example might be the extinct dodo (Raphus) on Mauritius and the solitaire (Pezophaps) from Rodrigues, which form sister taxa with close relatives in Southeast Asia [ 15, 16].
Among the most famous victims of this is the great auk, a now-extinct North Atlantic bird with a penguin's tuxedo-like plumage and ungainly waddle (but not much of its DNA – auks are only distantly related to their Southern Hemisphere cousins).
Set among extinct volcanoes, the city also offers several challenging climbs, the most famous of which is to the summit of Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park, which gives stunning views over the city.
Possibly the most famous Lazarus species, the coelacanth (pronounced seel-a-canth), was thought to have gone extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, but in 1938 one was discovered off the coast of South Africa.
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