Sentence examples for mostly extinct from inspiring English sources

Although the tradition is mostly extinct, there are a number of followers alive today.

Cycadophyte, any member of a diverse collection of mostly extinct primitive gymnospermous plants.

Early multicellular organisms are mostly extinct and the origins of these mechanisms are unknown.

And, not least, Dr. Manera showed me some of those fantastic trackways of ancient, and mostly extinct, mammals (and birds) that are preserved further up the beach from the point where Darwin was collecting fossils: footprints that Darwin evidently never saw.

Jawless fish lineages are mostly extinct.

And unlike the mostly extinct choices of our Stone Age ancestors, they are available to us today.

With the current combination of slower, truer-bouncing courts and more powerful rackets, consistent serve-and-volley is a largely extinct tactic, and is now used mostly as an occasional surprise tactic.

In the older layers of footprints of mostly now-extinct "megafauna" (large mammals like mastodons and the huge Megatherium), there are also the telltale footprints of humans.

Both crocodilians and turtles have retained six of these ancient, mostly long-extinct CR1 groups, respectively.

But, by the end of the Ice Age, about ten thousand years ago, the megafauna was mostly gone, driven extinct by the warming climate and, many scientists think, predation by us.

Up until a few years ago, there were dozens of "ghost signs" like these on Hackney Road and the surrounding streets, mostly advertisements for extinct brands, or details of businesses that have closed down or moved elsewhere.