Sentence examples for old species from inspiring English sources
Why is the name appropriate for such an old species?
"A very old species is being killed off quickly out here," he wrote.
The hands had the sophisticated wrists of a recent relative but the well-curved fingers of an old species.
Three thousand years hence, he concludes, historians will say: "The Machine provided a new mind for an old species.
These changes allow other species that are better suited to this modified habitat to succeed the old species.
Evolution and extinction are reciprocal processes (like life and death) affecting the decline of old species and the origin of new ones.
Robin Probert, head of technology and training at Kew, said: "This is habitat that has suffered the most over the past decades … only about 2% of the old species-rich meadows are left since the second world war".
"Planet," of course, draws on the old species-reversal conceit worked out by Pierre Boulle in his 1963 novel, "La Planète des Singes," a book that launched a cluster of movies and television shows, most notably Franklin J. Schaffner's "Planet of the Apes" (1968).
Some researchers say the sturgeon, a 200-million-year-old species, is in serious trouble.
The 110 million-year-old species was discovered in Niger and is related to the North American dinosaur Diplodocus.
The loggerhead is a 70-million-year-old species, a lumbering holdover from the age of dinosaurs.
