extinct
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These ancient tracks can reveal how extinct human relatives were built, how they moved, where they spent their time, and even how they may have interacted with one another.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The musicians who supplanted the East Village folkies were by that time dinosaurs themselves, having been rendered extinct by pop permutations several times over.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Water voles use to be fairly common in the Hogsmill River catchment but the species, immortalised as Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, was "locally extinct" until 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers in Los Angeles have made a ribbiting new discovery at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum — an extinct amphibian from the ice age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Open the kitchen cabinet where the peanut butter was kept and you were face to fossil face with an extinct fox.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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