Sentence examples for rapid extinction from inspiring English sources

New evidence now suggests that it may have been the most rapid extinction ever brought about by primitive people.

This conclusion finds support in the very rapid extinction of conditioned eyeblink responses to a buzzer.

The scientists found more evidence of rapid extinction in a database of 10,000 muddy footprints turned to rock in former lake basins from Virginia to Nova Scotia.

The Swiss bank UBS famously predicted the rapid "extinction" of the old fossil fuel system as battery costs as much as halve over the next five years.

As to the causes for this rapid extinction, researchers point to the harsh climate Neanderthals had endured in Europe for the previous 200,000 years, when the continent was swept by ice ages and intense cold.

In 1975, as it became ever clearer that, under business-as-usual scenarios, many pelagic whale species would be doomed to a rapid extinction, a popular movement emerged to shut the whalers down.

The rapid extinction rate stems from the ongoing conversion of forests and other natural areas to agriculture and urban land and accelerated climate change resulting from alterations to the carbon cycle.

"No one expected to see such rapid extinctions," said Dr. Gibson.

One of the most rapid extinctions was in North America, where not just big plant-eaters but also the predators that depended on them -- including saber-toothed cats, short-faced bears, cheetahs, maned lions and bigger versions of today's wolves -- are believed to have vanished in perhaps 400 years.

He added that he believed the most likely cause for the rapid extinctions to have been glaciation, but by the time he wrote World of Life (1911) he had come to believe those extinctions were "due to man's agency".

Impact theories can only explain very rapid extinctions, since the dust clouds and possible sulfuric aerosols would wash out of the atmosphere in a fairly short time possibly within.