Sentence examples for years extinct from inspiring English sources

Multifactor ANOVAs were used (1) to test for differences in germination against the factors of within-site position of soil cores and the number of years extinct; (2) to compare survivorship of seedlings, juveniles and adults; and (3) to compare λ against population longevity.

We determined the abundance and longevity of seeds in the soil by using sites where plants were recently (1 5 years) extinct above ground and where the position of extirpated plants was identified by a marking peg placed adjacent to the plant when it was alive.

We used mass spectrometry to obtain protein sequences from bones of a 160,000- to 600,000-year-old extinct mastodon (Mammut americanum) and a 68-million-year-old dinosaur (Tyrannosaurus rex).

"Two species are recognised and current evidence suggests that they represent an early branch on the tree of life, with similarities to the 600 million-year-old extinct Ediacara fauna".

This four-day camping safari includes multiple game drives and a visit to Ngorongoro crater, the three-million-year-old extinct volcano that herds of tourists descend into to see herds of wildlife on the crater floor.

Lyell believes that, on average, one species per year becomes extinct the world over.

Remarkably, the 400-million-year-old extinct placoderm fish from Burrinjuck shows the same posterior attachment for the superior oblique eye muscle as in the modern agnathan, the lamprey (Young 1986).

Now a team of paleontologists argues that an 85-million-year-old extinct mammal called a zalambdalestid is placental, which may help reconcile the molecular data with the fossils.

Some of these clades did not see a precipitous decline in their number of susceptible hosts, such that their decline in fitness was almost entirely attributed to deleterious mutation accumulation (e.g., the large clade originating in year 20 and going extinct in year 28).

But scientists are divided about raising the species from the dead, 10,000 years after becoming extinct.

We would have a glorious run for a few hundred years, then go extinct for lack of reproduction.