Werner Herzog

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

German Director

Daniel Pauly

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

French Scientist

Gail Bradbrook

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

British Activist

Leonardo DiCaprio

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

American Actor

Anohni

In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.

English Musician

Mahatma Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Indian Leader

John F. Kennedy

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

American President

Peter Heller

Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.

Writer

Peter Benchley

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

American Author

Georg Trakl

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Austrian Poet

Use it to describe things that used to be alive or functioning but aren't anymore.

Beyond Existence

It often refers to lost cultural aspects, like a way of life or customs.

Cultural Significance

It's used for species or practices that ended due to historical events.

Historical Context

It specifically means a fire has been completely put out.

Literal Fire

Used to confirm that a potential danger, like a fire, no longer exists.

Safety Assurance

Emphasizes the finality of a species’ or group’s termination.

End of Lineage

Also applies to plants and other living organisms that no longer have living members.

Not Just Animals

Commonly used in environmental and conservation contexts to highlight urgency.

Conservation Relevance

 pheasants and of course again while cats were destroyed along with a lot of other predatory mammals so what you then saw was what was left of the wildcats that had been annihilated were hanging on to western scotland that's where the last wild cats were left and in fact they probably would have gone extinct too were not for the first world war

Rescuing the UK's Rarest...

 this has on its native trees and forests is not sustainable. If we don't do something, this tree could become extinct in the wild for good. If we want to continue enjoying oud, we need a sustainable trade in it. And in doing so, protect the communities, forests and ecosystems which depend on it.

Is Your Perfume Made...

 He couldn't match it up to any bones on the planet, and he said, Aha! It's extinct. And very soon after, the fossil record started yielding a very good idea of how many plants and animals there have been since complex life really began to leave a very interesting fossil record.

Earth's mass extinctions...

 piece by piece, and if we don't work to protect the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin, it will become extinct in our lifetime. If the chirp from one tamarin to the next has proven to be more than just idle chit chat, imagine what else we have left to discover.

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 books as being the largest land predator on earth so this gargantuan skull must surely come from some prehistoric dinosaur a saber-toothed cat perhaps well actually this super giant is anything but extinct in fact they're increasing in number they're said to be

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 and was believed to have died out during the same mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. To biologists and paleontologists, this creature was a very old and fascinating but entirely extinct fish, forever fossilized.

The coelacanth: A living...

 the normal rate what a feat in the next ten to a hundred years every beloved animal character and every children's book is predicted to go extinct lions gone rhinos gone Tiger gorilla elephant polar bear gone in three seconds species that have been

His Epic Message Will...

 there was a species that had been initially listed on the endangered species list declared extinct it's significance is that it's part of an ecosystem that is highly underrepresented in the world out here on the right planes we know that where

Harsh Reality of Saving...

 water bowls right here are amongst some of the most important creatures in the uk and why is the conservation of waterfalls so important if we're not here breeding them to release them the whole population would go extinct

Saving Water Voles From...

 are so please get out there and help me spread the word please help me speak on behalf of tapirs they're way too important to go extinct thank you so much

Extinct

No longer in existence or not active anymore.

Often appears as...

No longer burning.

Often appears as...

No longer having any living members or representatives.

Often appears as...

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