Sentence examples for now be extinct from inspiring English sources

It is only known from two or three questionable specimens from the 19th century and could now be extinct.

Carrington's featherwort would now be extinct were it not for the fact that the species can also propagate nonsexually.

But the act, writes a former U.S. Interior Secretary, has saved hundreds of species that might now be extinct, while allowing for well-managed development.

The wild horse (Equus caballus), ancestor of the domestic horse, occupied the low country north of the great mountain ranges from Europe across central Asia; it may now be extinct as a wild animal.

Given that the fruits shrivel on the plants without producing offspring, it is thought that their animal disperser(s) must now be extinct, possibly giant ground sloths or other megafauna that once roamed the Americas.

These giant beasts may now be extinct, but some of their bodies still remain in the frozen Arctic wilderness.

Subspecies graysoni, endemic to Socorro Island, has not been encountered since 1931 and presumably now is extinct (Wehtje et al. 1993).

He died in 2016 after 11 years in the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the species appears now to be extinct.

The lion is frequently mentioned in early Arabic literature, but lions seem now to be extinct in the peninsula.

They reveled in something called "leisure" — not sports, not culture, not work — that's now said to be extinct.

And had they done so, we wouldn't be here now; we'd be extinct.