extinction

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He says not all zoos will survive but describes the birth of a critically-endangered Amur leopard at Dartmoor Zoo - a species on the brink of extinction - as "the apex of our achievement".

From BBC

Meanwhile, on Moltbook, the AI agents - or perhaps humans with robotic masks on - continue to chatter, and not all the talk is of human extinction.

From BBC

Walruses have been officially protected in Norway since the 1950s, after they were hunted to near extinction.

From BBC

Puffins are listed as vulnerable to extinction on the global International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.

From BBC

A deep-water fish called coelacanth similarly survived the mass extinction that wiped out all the dinosaurs that did not evolve into birds, he pointed out.

From Barron's