Sentence examples for one extinct from inspiring English sources

One extinct hamster of Cricetus, for example, lived in North Africa during the Middle Miocene, but the only extant member of that genus is the common hamster of Eurasia.

One extinct relative of modern boas (Titanoboa cerrejonensis) lived between the end of the Cretaceous Period (some 65.5 million years ago) and the middle of the Eocene Epoch (about 40 million years ago).

In each analysis, the backbone constraint tree included all extant taxa and one extinct taxon.

With the addition of the published mtDNA genomes of the white [GenBank: Y07726] [ 16] and Indian [Genbank: X97336.1] [ 17] rhinoceroses, the six genomes cover all the living and one extinct member of the rhinocerotid family.

Many, like Edward O. Wilson, will worry about species that face extinction; but one extinct creature, the Pyrenean ibex, may actually be revived.

For now, only one extinct subspecies has been brought back, and the baby animal that was born lived just minutes in 2003.

It heralds a fresh perspective on extinct animals, one that sees these creatures not as hulking monuments standing alone in a landscape, but living beings adapting to their environment and surviving predation.

One recently extinct species is the golden toad, found in Costa Rica.

I described this problem to a molecular biologist and he had a clever suggestion: take two clearly different but related living species, pretend one is extinct, and put its DNA into an egg cell of the other species.

Eventually all stem cell lineages within a crypt except for one become extinct, leading to niche succession or monoclonal conversion [ 14].

Although we have ancient DNA data for only a few extant species, as researchers have tended to focus on the extinct ones, DNA sequences from modern populations suggest that many living species may have much lower genetic diversity than they had during the Pleistocene.