Sentence examples for recent extinction from inspiring English sources

They stopped at Bahía Blanca, and in cliffs near Punta Alta Darwin made a major find of fossil bones of huge extinct mammals beside modern seashells, indicating recent extinction with no signs of change in climate or catastrophe.

Erasmus et al. [ 26] and Jousselin et al. [ 36] recently suggested that original pollinator species duplication followed by more recent extinction of one or other of the lineages in host figs, rather than host shifts, could explain this unusual association pattern.

"They argue that recent extinction rates are up to 100 times higher than in the past.

The same approach can be used to estimate recent extinction rates for various other groups of plants and animals.

There's no doubt that the aspirational middle-class young want change, and have been the engine behind enigmatic populist anti-corruption activists such as Anna Hazare, the recent extinction of their interest in the man leading to his sudden relegation to the background.

The most famous recent extinction of all, the extermination of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) by humans and their introduced animals, was one of 33 species of birds, 30 species of land snails, and 11 species of reptiles lost from Mauritius, Rodrigues, and Réunion in the Indian Ocean in the past three centuries.

Terrestrial ecosystems are far from being the only places where recent extinctions have occurred.

This discussion presents five well-known case histories of recent extinctions.

From them, some general features can be deduced about recent extinctions that also provide clues to the future.

The next most recent extinctions occurred in Madagascar in the 1500's, he said, with the loss of several giant lemurs.

Although we are lacking a number of big species now thanks to various relatively recent extinctions, it is still pretty normal for mammal faunas to have only a handful of giant herbivorous species over a tonne or so.