Sentence examples for slow extinction from inspiring English sources

Evolution is slow; extinction can be fast.

They all but guarantee the slow extinction of the roughly 1,700 wolves left in the Rocky Mountain West.

Jon Reilly, then president of SeaWorld San Diego, opposed the decision, declaring "a ban on breeding would sentence these animals to a slow extinction in our care".

From that time the slow extinction of the two Baltic groups began, with the Germanization of the Prussians being completed at the beginning of the 18th century.

Finally, the health experts have realised what speed enthusiasts have known all along – that being knocked down by an overkeen motorist is a vastly superior way to die than slow extinction by particulates.

A little tomboy, Ellie (Elie Docter, Pete's daughter), bursts into Carl's world, and, in a rapid, wordless montage, we see their long life together — wedded bliss and also, painfully, the slow extinction of many hopes, including a desire that they, too, will have great adventures in South America.

But Nick Haddad, a conservation biologist at North Carolina State University who has studied wildlife corridors extensively but was not involved in the study, argued that corridors can slow extinctions in the short term while larger efforts get underway.

Why? -How can an individual make a difference in slowing extinction rates?

It was found in Experiment 1 that actively conditioned rats showed a slower extinction rate as revealed by repeated two-bottle tests (active testing) as opposed to passively conditioned ones.

In the years when the Deccan Traps hypothesis was linked to a slower extinction, Luis Alvarez (who died in 1988) replied that paleontologists were being misled by sparse data.

Ammonite genera became extinct at or near the K Pg boundary; however, there was a smaller and slower extinction of ammonite genera prior to the boundary that was associated with a late Cretaceous marine regression.