9 sentences with 'extinct'
Example sentences and phrases with the word extinct and other words derived from it.
• « The more than 300 craters of extinct volcanoes that dot the island give it the appearance of a lunar landscape. »
• « Tiberius Gracchus, among others, was concerned that the common, free, farm-owning Roman would become extinct if the current trend of wealthy landowners taking over farms and replacing farmers with slaves continued. Without these commoners, Rome's armies would be drastically weakened. »
• « Nearly 360 kilometres of river are totally polluted, with all its fauna extinct or on the way to extinction. But these disturbances can have global consequences if they are not reversed, as this is not just a localised problem. »
• « Volcanic wreaths like the Hawaiian Islands are aligned in a northwest-southeast direction, and their respective ages grow as you move away from Hawaii and its active volcanoes," he says, "until you reach the northwest end of the chain, where a volcano that has been extinct for 40 million years is located. This kind of alignment comes from the slow movement of the oceanic plate over the hot spot. »
• « The coelacanth, a fish over a metre long, was found alive in 1938 when it was thought to be extinct in the Cretaceous period. »
• « It so happens that the discovery of living species (both animal and plant) that had been considered extinct tens of millions of years ago, with the same anatomical characteristics that they showed in their fossil remains, reveals two facts that are difficult for the most conservative naturalists to accept: »
• « on the one hand, that there are forms of life that remain outside the evolutionary process - they have not changed at all for millions of years - and, on the other hand, the possibility that there is an indefinite number of species considered extinct developing naturally, outside human knowledge. »
• « This is why animal and plant species disappear; others are in danger of becoming extinct if appropriate measures are not taken. »