extinct
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Colossal Biosciences has been on a quest to bring back extinct animals, including the woolly mammoth and dodo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"In London alone, we've lost 185 species of plant. They have gone extinct in recent history."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Different methods can produce substantially different estimates, particularly when scientists must reconstruct an extinct animal using an incomplete backbone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
However, the continent boasts many fabulous fossil finds, including those of the most familiar extinct animals – dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
They would therefore, in the Book of Living Things, be marked: Presumed extinct.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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