Sentence examples for vanished creatures from inspiring English sources

In A GAP IN NATURE: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Atlantic Monthly, $34.95), Tim Flannery has collected the stories of many of the world's now vanished creatures.

There are two kinds of vanished creatures: those, like the dinosaurs and mammoths, that the glaciers swept aside, and others -- like the Tasmanian tiger, the passenger pigeon and the ivory-billed woodpecker -- that disappeared so recently that they continue to flicker with possibility just behind the skyline of human memory.

A nice way to learn about vanished creatures such as the thylacine, the dodo, the aepyornis, the Barbary lion, the horned turtle, and the sivatherium.

Philosophy is for we mortals, vanishing creatures, not the ones who bounce back on the third day".

Among his books are "Vanishing Creatures," "Vanishing Flora" and "Birds & Bees: A Sexual Study".

And to bring the long-vanished creatures to life, a legion of computer animators labored over every conceivable aspect of their existence, from the millions of feathers that cover White Tip to the splashes of sand that rise from the desert floor when she runs off to the kill.

The creature vanished over the ridge almost as quickly as it had manifested, but our collective sighting was extraordinary enough to provoke a silence-breaking discussion with the retreat staff before our next round of emptiness.

Moreover — and here one imagines a hush falling over his audience — both creatures had vanished from the face of the earth.

Moreover and here one imagines a hush falling over his audience both creatures had vanished from the face of the earth.

The reef where they were found seems to have vanished shortly after these creatures lived.

Next appeared a duiker, and I put the gun to my shoulder and fired repeatedly but without result, since the creature had vanished before I could manage to sight it.