Sentence examples for were extinct for from inspiring English sources

Of the large birds that once lived on the fens, spoonbills and egrets were extinct for some 300 years before returning recently; but the great bustard, once sufficiently plentiful to be taken for lordly banquets, has never returned, and neither has the purple heron, except as a passing rarity.

They've been extinct for millions of years!

And if that wasn't difficult enough, the fish had been extinct for 30 years.

Before Ms. Courtenay-Latimer's discovery, the coelacanth was thought to have been extinct for at least 70 million years.

But humans, chimps, mice, and rats are all living organisms, while Neanderthals have been extinct for thirty thousand years.

The animals have also recolonised parts of Scandinavia and the UK where they have been extinct for centuries.

The California grizzly bear is extinct, for instance, and the bighorn sheep is found mostly in remote desert mountains.

This big, golden butterfly is enjoying a remarkable renaissance and is recolonising many places in the south-east from where it has been extinct for 50 years.

By comparison, dinosaurs have been extinct for about 65 million years, and the ancestors of humans got going only about 4 million years ago.

Using such techniques, researchers have now resurrected the DNA of the Tasmanian tiger, the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, which has been extinct for more than seventy years.

In geological terms Kauai is a youthful five million years old; the Velociraptors had been extinct for at least 70 million years when it emerged in the Pacific.