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He took his knife and fork, and was going to commence eating, when the inclination appeared to become suddenly extinct.

The ship Pequod is named for an extinct New England Indian tribe; thus the name suggests that the boat is doomed to destruction.

The wing of Xenicibis (top) compared with that of a typical ibis Eudocimus (middle) and the extinct, flightless ibis Apteribis (bottom).

I thought places like this were extinct in our district, Linda said. She lit a cigarette and began to smoke.

He couldn't match it up to any bones on the planet, and he said, Aha! It's extinct.

Deeply upsetting It seems so much worse when you know this will likely be just one of many species to become extinct over the coming decade.

Similarly, high heat flows are to be expected among the active or not-too-long extinct magmatic belts of plate approximation zones.

Bringing extinct species back to life is no longer considered science fiction. But is it a good idea?

But it might be possible, as knowledge advances, to reconstruct part of it from a better understanding of that extinct species's DNA.

With all that attention paid to them, you'd think these creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct.

(1) Say, buddy, not to cast aspersions on your survival instincts or nothing, but haven't mammoths pretty much gone extinct?

Unlike in the rest of Canada, the moose has no natural predators on the island, where the native wolf went extinct.

More mammals have become extinct in that country over the last 200 years than in any other place in the world.

Matching the music of the Sun's dream assures that Terra will not go extinct and shall carry on in her journey home.

It may be only a question of time until GM crops dramatically decrease yield and become extinct.

Because eels have always been ubiquitous and abundant, Watts says, no one seems to believe they could ever go extinct.

If this dolphin is now deemed to be extinct, scientists say it would be one of the few large aquatic mammals to be wiped out in 300 years.

Dr Manning said: "The potential for this technique to gently un-pick the chemistry of long extinct species is quite breathtaking. "

If earth failed to ascend and the sun accomplished this task seeming to disappear, earth would be left to die or become extinct.

The streams and rivers of this country used to be home to a sacred reptile, which has since gone extinct.

For instance, people taking up the woods, go transit, the local out of favor a few of the bird was extinct.

Scientists do not know why dinosaurs became extinct.

The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once thrived.

Manchurian went extinct as a language in the1990s, but someone claimed to have been a speaker and it's gotten somepreservation notice now.

The service's lead scientist for the eastern cougar, Mark McCollough, said the animal has likely been extinct since the 1930s.

It is fairly common to see that a species or family has its own moment where it diversifies and later goes extinct.

Many of the later mammals, though now extinct, were known to primitive man and were featured by him in cave painting and on bone carvings.

In an extraordinary Jurassic Park- style experiment, DNA from a frozen specimen of the extinct giant was used to reproduce their blood.

The sea creatures, somehow restored to life in a theme park, hint at a future where cloning makes re-creating extinct animals possible.

In humans before the advent of dinosaurs had become extinct, and no one to see live dinosaurs.

Anyway, once we made it there, then it's a game park, as I said -- an extinct game park.

Conservation groups said the Javan rhinoceros is now extinct in Vietnam, according to the BBC.

This new technology from Japanese camera maker Cannon allows visitors to see extinct creatures with special virtual reality glasses.

Secondly, certain rare wild animals that are going to be extinct should be collected, fed and reproduced artificially.

fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa.

England used to be the native home of Brown Bears, but they became extinct around the 11th century.

Palaeontologist Richard Owen told him the fossils he had found were of extinct relatives of South American animals living today.

Chickens might not be like the romanticized version of extinct birds we'd see in a museum, but they're still birds.

any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long sword like upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene.

Through analysis of the stability of the model, the threshold which determines whether the disease is extinct or not is obtained.

Are species becoming extinct at a more rapid rate than at any other point in human history?

His team determined that over the past 122 years, at least 351 species thought to have gone extinct have been rediscovered.

In an extinct volcano , such as he boasted that his breast was, it was wonderful how he should feel such a flame !

Humans have no right to live unsustainably - or knowingly to cause other species to become largely extinct.

The dinosaurs and numerous other reptiles which had previously been dominant were extinct.

If there's no sunlight, we won't be able to see the vivid world and in fact, all lives on earth will become extinct.

A new report on the state of the world's oceans warns marine life is likely to go extinct at a rate unprecedented in human history.

at the moment, the oil lamp of my ancestral home had long been extinct. I am not sure, if the wandering boat still carries my old dream? !

And even one deal would be a historic moment for a complex financial product many wrote off as extinct in Europe.

"Whether volcanoes are extinct or alive, it comes to the same thing for us, " said the geographer.

generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals.

He declared the baiji extinct, calling it a loss for China and the world.

Biodiversity must be preserved at all costs and measures should be taken to ensure more species from becoming extinct.

The war is merciless. It either causes a country to be extinct to catch up with and surpass the advanced country in economy.

Biologists estimate that within the past 500 years, at least 80 mammal species have gone extinct out of a starting total of 5, 570 species.

At the moment , the decline of biological resources is surprising , the speed of extinct becomes faster and faster .

BETH SHAPIRO: "I am interested to understand why some animals went extinct and others animals didn't at the end of the last Ice Age. "

This mushroom grows in Washington state, Oregon, Northern California, British Columbia, now thought to be extinct in Europe.

Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered.

GERALD LEAPE "They undermine the efforts of scientists to set quotas to make sure that stocks of fish do not go extinct. "

So the best place to find diamonds is in the center of an extinct volcano , in a type of rock called kimberlite .

We dont see blue sky all day long. many species have been extinct.

Classicism was now practically extinct though romanticism lingered as a secondary trend until late century.

The common ancestor of the glass wing is long extinct but the clade it belongs to is known as the clearwing clade .

A quick survey indicated that the sea fox would be extinct before the end of the year.

The expert found a skull and some fossils of animal skeleton that were extinct in medieval times.

The Turkoman horse , or Turkmene, was an Oriental horse breed from the steppes of Central Asia, now extinct.

Not since the time of the sabertooth has a feline species gone extinct.

A species becomes extinct when the last existing member of that species dies.

They mostly wrote in Latin, which while it may be a dead language, is pretty far from extinct, or Greek, which is alive and well.

Animals to which humans are indifferent often lose their habitats and go extinct.

Previous attempts to diagnose the colour of long extinct animals focused on pigment "containers" in feathers known as melanosomes.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in a report issued recently that the eastern cougar is extinct, the Guangzhou Daily reported.

The use of DDT caused the peregrine falcon to become extinct throughout much of its normal range throughout the Eastern United States.

Kiska has a great mixture of terrain, with mountains, valleys, flat lands, cliff, beaches, and a huge extinct volcano.

The fossil consists of a complete skull of an archaeocyte, an extinct group of ancestors of modern cetaceans.

Amphibians, too, are facing an extinction crisis, with at least 33 percent either threatened or extinct, the I. U. C. N. reported.

Biodiversity must be preserved at all costs and measures taken to ensure more species don't become extinct.

We depend on the sun to get light and heat. Without sunshine, all the species on earth would extinct.

Once the print New York Times is extinct, it's not at all clear how the paper will pay for its primary job, which is reporting.

These new intellectuals as bent on establishing a modern state, making clan fields no longer have to survive, and eventually went extinct.

This exceptional find marks the first time scientists have found direct evidence of such a complex, extinct food chain.

Crater Lake in southwestern Oregon of the United States lies in the crater of an extinct volcano.

Subsequently, DNA sequences have been published for a number of extinct species.

When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct.

threw his extinct cigarette into the stream; faint smoke from the extinguished candle; the fire is out; the quenched flames.

Two years ago, this delicate bloom went extinct in the wild due to over-exploitation of its habitat.

An animal species will become extinct if it fails to produce enough young in each generation.

When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strong happened to the large animals; they suddenly became extinct.

The Guam Micronesian kingfisher is thought to be extinct in the wild following the introduction of the brown tree snake.

It is as if our understanding of all arachnids were based on clues left by a single species of extinct spider.

Both are looking for fossil links that will shed light on the parenting behavior of these giant extinct lizards.

As soul returns to the farmers, the farmland will not go extinct, but will continue to thrive providing the food for the human populace.

The salmon is still listed as extinct in the public records of the Environment Ministry.

But no government wants to see the tiger, an emblem of India, go extinct on its watch.

A Paleozoic microfossil usually having a toothlike shape and considered to BE the remains of an extinct marine organism.

They existed in a state of profound apathy, "like extinct volcanoes, " in the words of one doctor.

The scientists believe the genetic adaptation technique could be used to resurrect body parts and proteins from other extinct animals.

an extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions.

I am in the position of a biologist who from a single bone must reconstruct not only the appearance of an extinct animal, but its habits.

But if all individuals of a species go without sex, over time harmful mutations build up and the species can go extinct.

Japanese salmon species thought to be extinct for 70 years is alive and well in a lake near Mount Fuji, a science professor said Wednesday.

"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years, " he said.

Worst of all, with the living conditions destroyed, we human beings might be extinct eventually.

Half of all species could become extinct, untold millions of people would be displaced, whole nations drowned by the sea.

Luckily, people begin to be aware that tigers are becoming extinct and governments have devised new plans to protect tigers.

Live the love that you are that all barriers of illusion may become extinct that you see the truth.

Those that gave too much tried to save another root race by providing too much chi to their existence and ultimately went extinct.

By the turn of this century the barrens were almost extinct, and the list of their constituent species hardly recorded.

As has always been said, if men had to propagate the species, we would become extinct.

An extinct volcano has ceased to be able to explode.

Most of those embedded viruses are now extinct, but in 2005 French researchers applied for permission to resurrect one of them.

The red and white gods had no interest in having humanity go extinct, and they were more in control over the human dream than Earth.

Much of the time however, the entire consensus reality along with the solar system that non-resonant humans had migrated into went extinct.

Languages are becoming extinct at twice the rate of endangered mammals and four times the rate of endangered birds.

Quite a lot of species have become extinct or on the verge of extinction, which has led to the decrease of bio-diversity.

Dinosaurs were extinct, the Himalayas were forming and a huge range of mammals thrived in vast jungles.

Think about all the extinct furred animals that are displayed on museums around the world.

Australia has large lizards that have been sighted on occasion, and the oceans bring up ancient fish types considered extinct.

Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.

The Bengal tiger, extinct for over a century, is making a comeback. These cloned tiger cubs at the Beijing Zoo are.

The Finnish sauna's profile began to grow when the Reformation made the European bath house almost extinct.

At various times in the geological past, many species have become extinct as a result of natural, rather than human, processes.

Large animals, now extinct, provided more meat than the animals with which we are familiar.

It shows that birds in Hawaii are more in danger of becoming extinct than anywhere else in the United States.

Its next highest, A Mei Hill, is at the center of the island, 275 meters above sea level, both are extinct craters.

Or, in a real tragedy, a key scaffold species may be globally extinct.

Cantonese Opera is now found in local community halls and professional companies are almost extinct.

A technology used to develop new medical treatments might one day revive endangered or extinct species.

But the capture of a snow leopard, once believed to be extinct in Afghanistan, didn't stay secret for long.

"But extinct volcanoes may come to life again, " the little prince interrupted. "What does that mean-- 'ephemeral'? "

The extinct trees of the genus Lepidodendron were once distributed widely and contributed largely to the coal seams of the Carboniferous .

any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long up curved tusks.

It is all so small. I have three volcanoes. Two volcanoes are active and the other is extinct.

And do they have that object that is all but extinct: a card catalog with narrow oak drawers holding thousands of 3-by-5-inch cards?

At the current rate of deforestation, the wild orangutans are predicted to be extinct in fewer than 20 years.

Whales are divided into two broad groups calledbaleen and toothed whales. There was a third group but this is now totally extinct.

A mission aimed at rediscovering amphibian species thought to be extinct has yielded its first results.

Hesperornis is an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds that lived during the Late Cretaceous.

The ivory- billed woodpecker, long thought to be extinct, turned out not to be.

"An island has an economic life of its own and can support human habitations; these are extinct volcanoes, " Valencia said.

Linguists assume new duties of storing as much information as possible about extinct languages.

There have actually been 22 species of hominids that have been around, have evolved, have wandered in different places, have gone extinct.

Inspired by a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, the painting "became a group portrait of soon to be extinct things, " said Rockman.

All dinosaurs extinct, but the dinosaur offspring - birds survival, and grew so far.

If we do not adopt performs to protect and cultivate it, these precious raw materials for medicine could become extinct soon.

He cautions that other birds have been assumed to be extinct, only to be rediscovered later.

The tarsiers , which some scientists believed were extinct, may not have been overly thrilled to be found.

As more isolated populations and species come into contact, they will mate, hybrids will form and rare species are likely to go extinct.

If food became scarce at the time the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, this could have made it harder for them to survive.

Where? Wait a minute. I thought mammoths were extinct.

When I go to places like this , which are paleontological sites, it's like going to a game park , an extinct game park .

Prince Caspian: You're Narnians. You're supposed to be extinct. Nikabrik: Sorry to disappoint you.

These national parks are very important for preserving many animals, (who) would otherwise run the risk of becoming extinct.

These national parks are very important for preserving many animals, which would otherwise run the risk of becoming extinct.

used in some classification systems: a group of extinct fossil gymnosperms coextensive with the order Cycadofilicales.

A species is said to be extinct when only one individual exists .

Mammoths, mastodons, massive ground sloths, woolly rhinoceros, cave bears and large flightless birds suddenly became extinct.

"If this rate of shift continues a relatively large number of species could go extinct, " he says.

The flower was rare and once believed extinct, but recently new growths had been discovered.

It would be unfair to clone any extinct animal if they would have to live in a zoo.

The flowers are there, much more restricted in range than they once were but far from extinct.

As a consequence, we have an emerging fossil record of flowering plants that includes many extinct taxa and would have delighted Darwin.

Many species will seem extinct, where they are merely decimated in number and staying close to where conditions are optimal.

"Six years ago, I was extinct as a player, " he said.

Lack of sediment has meant that local fish species have become extinct and the Grand Canyon's beaches have been severely eroded.

The Gran Telescopio Canarias, one of the world's most powerful telescopes, sits atop an extinct volcano on La Palma, Canary Islands.

We must try hard to protect these rare animals; otherwise they'll become extinct in a few decades.

Report in Daily Mail next day cites Roman Abramovich as main cause of all snakes worldwide becoming extinct.

The state of being destroyed or becoming extinct, as a species of animal.

While it is fitting that much of the world learned of Jobs's passing on a device he created, his true gift will not go extinct.

He and his colleagues made a microscopic inspection of fossils of feathers from extinct birds.

To these dolphin which are about to be extinct.

Plus, extinct cephalopods are more aesthetically appealing than hominin skulls.

Because dinosaurs are extinct the scientists had very little to go on.

Crater National Geopark ? Is the world's most complete one of the extinct volcanic peaks.

Living fossil Modern organisms with anatomical or physiological features found elsewhere only in extinct species.

Kombuisia antarctica belonged to a large group of extinct animals called anamodonts which were the most common plant eaters of their time.

It would be unfair to clone any extinct animals if they could have to live in a zoo.

Before this, there were many stories around the world citing WHO research stating that natural blondes would become extinct by 2202.

In another few hundred or thousands of years, humans may become extinct due to lack of water.

More to the point, 480 of the 492 species made extinct since Roman times have disappeared in the past two centuries.

That won't make the smartphone extinct, by any means - but it is a form of convergence that will survive.

Steve Backshall heads a team descending into the crater of a giant extinct volcano covered in thick jungle.

The ice age arrives, the cold climate surpassed the biological survival to allow, the massive ancient times mammalia biology became extinct.

It was last seen in the 1600s, around the time the dodo had gone extinct.

Conodonts went extinct at the end of the Triassic Period, about the time dinosaurs were evolving.

On determining whether rodent pest population becomes extinct, the contraception rate, kill rate, harvest rate etc have same effect.

The Sith, everyone knew, were extinct, disappeared from the galaxy for a millennium.

Hagi is the coelacanth of Japan, the ancient survivor that people assume to be extinct.

The extinct animals used other creatures' shells to help them breathe on land 500 million years ago, new research suggests.

The populations of six species have more than halved since the 1970s and five species have become extinct.

extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain; formerly Pithecanthropus erectus.

Mammoths are extinct elephants with a hairy skin and long tusks, curving upward.

Really the kakapo has a very similar life history to that iconic extinct bird the Dodo.

If extreme efforts are not undertaken, the big cat may be extinct within our lifetime -- possibly in as soon as a dozen years.

An animal species becomes extinct when it fails to produce enough young in each generation to keep pace with the death-rate.

The white-and-black feathered Laysan albatross is not in danger of becoming extinct.

The nonprofit maintains the Red List, a registry that ranks the status of various species, from thriving ( "least concern" ) to extinct.

Nature is a victim of the upheaval on Earth, and over a long period many species have become extinct.

Whatever the cause, dinosaurs, as well as about half of all species on the planet, went extinct.

Some cruel people abuse them or throw them away, and lots of animals are close to being extinct.

A dictionary displaying the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work, BBC reported.

Students in this major study the languages, both extinct and modern, of the Celtic peoples of Britain, Europe, and Asia.

Except for some small, isolated pockets in the academic community, the "purely" fundamental analyst is virtually extinct.

Effective measures should be taken to preserve endangered animals to ensure that more species don't become extinct.

Why it went extinct no one knows for sure, but a reasonable guess is: us.

Red Data Book List of threatened and extinct species for a given country.

More than 90% of marine species went extinct, and land-based ecosystems suffered almost as much.

A company, or a piece of software, is subject to the same rules of survival as any living entity: adapt or become extinct.

Photo Gallery: Jurassic Period A dig in Dry Mesa, Colorado, revealed these Jurassic jewels: claws from a creature now extinct.

Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related with Asia elephants, are now extinct.

And if you geniuses are normal, this species is going to end up extinct.

a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior .

as the summit of an extinct volcano , cocos island is a remote pacific paradise 480 km west of costarica.

If finding the right man was a prerequisite of heterosexuality, we would soon be extinct.

a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas .

With the extensive destruction of their native habitats, it is certain that many Chinese species have already become extinct.

is an endangered species, ie is in danger of becoming extinct.

Environmental degradation forces bicyclists to wear smog masks and has rendered the Yangtze dolphin extinct.

Since human being's irregular hunting and environmental changes, Elaphurus davidianus had been become extinct since 1900.

However, others propose that if the government does not preserve these endangered languages, they would eventually become extinct.

If we do not create nature reserves, more animal species will probably become extinct.

rare dog like carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct.

The entire package was ahead of its time, even as far as the now-extinct PDA market was concerned.

If current ocean degradation trends continue, will commercial fisheries become extinct?

Fossils suggest that some earlier groups of plants, now extinct, had evolved a dependency on insects like scorpionflies.

The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.

Certain dinosaurs may go extinct -- again -- since they may have only existed in the minds of paleontologists.

Well, it's not so surprising that they've gone extinct. (Laughter) But in fact that's not why they went extinct.

I picnic by an extinct volcano every week.

The researchers also made what they say are the first sequences of nuclear DNA from the extinct American mastodon.

The extinct language of the Etruscans, of unknown linguistic affiliation.

Trapped inside was an extinct breed of stingless bee.

The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct.

Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts.

Fortunately for us, the La Garita supervolcano is now extinct.

I have always thought that measles were almost "extinct" in most parts of the U. S. today.

If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of species that are alive today will become extinct.

Our BISON catalog may not be extinct, but it is being hunted down by the competition.

the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world.

And bed nets have an effect on the epidemic, but you're never going to make it extinct with bed nets.

A recent study by Zhao et al. describes novel patterns of TE diversification in the genome of the extinct mammoth Mammuthus primigenius.

"They were going to go extinct in 25 years with a 99 percent probability if we left them alone, " he says.

Such scrappy ways permitted mammals to fill ecological niche voids that opened up when dinosaurs went extinct.

small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct.

Ifyou want to read an extinct bird's genome, you've got to crack a feweggs.

But with the genetic material of an extinct virus in front of them, researchers can recreate it in the lab.

They are cute and cuddly, but one wildlife expert argues that pandas should be left to go extinct.

Unless we take proper measures, the Great Panda will soon become extinct.