Sentence examples for sudden extinction from inspiring English sources

A bet on taxi medallions shouldn't be a bet on the sudden extinction of ride-hailing apps.

The end of the Cretaceous Period is marked by a sudden extinction of many life-forms on Earth, and marine organisms were no exception (see K T extinction).

Modern humans, along with environmental factors, have long been suspects in the sudden extinction of our thick-browed relatives, but the nature of their decline is still under debate.

Or think of him, in Affliction, as the dumb cop, barely articulate, taking himself off on some murder wild goose chase, and so close to his own sudden extinction it makes you weep.

Being big is an advantage in a habitat with a large landmass of lots of vegetation, although it can make species vulnerable to sudden extinction if the environment changes rapidly.

Joining the circle of curmudgeons this season is Eric G. Wilson, whose "Against Happiness" warns that the "American obsession with happiness" could "well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation".

"This new work provides the best evidence for sudden dinosaur extinction and for tying this event to the asteroid impact rather than other possible causes such as the longer-term effects of the extensive volcanic activity that occurred at the end of the cretaceous".

No clear consensus has emerged, and, in view of the facts that there is no evidence of a sudden mass extinction and that Aboriginals seem to have occupied most of Australia for at least 20,000 years before the last megafauna disappeared, it is likely that a combination of all those factors played a part.

These and their reverse, the isthmuses such as Panama that rose to link continents, explain the paleontological record of relatively sudden appearances and extinctions as animals and plants crossed into previously isolated territories.

The footprint research reinforces the hypothesis that the extinction was sudden.

The sudden decline and ultimate extinction of the proud Heike, whose members had held the highest offices of the imperial court, illustrates the Buddhist philosophy of the transitory nature of all things; it invites the readers to seek deliverance from the world of sufferings through a faith that will take them to a land of eternal felicity at the moment of their death.