extinct

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Poços de Caldas, a city built in the caldera of an extinct volcano, has become one of the centers of the rush.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

To test these assumptions, we analysed more than 500 teeth from 27 primate species, both extinct and living.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

In 2014-15, she helped with a county-wide survey, but said: "We searched diligently but very sadly concluded that water voles were functionally extinct in Surrey."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Colossal’s latest announcement was that it has hatched 26 chickens in an “artificial egg” — a “foundational step,” it said, “toward resurrecting extinct bird species” such as the New Zealand giant moa and the dodo.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee