It is the only known mass extinction of insects.

Now, extinction is a different kind of death.

We are a breed on the verge of extinction, Nana said of ethnic Georgians.

Stewart Brand The dawn of de extinction. Are you ready?

De extinction falls in that category.

That technology will be used on de extincted animals.

I am almost extinct I'm a paleontologist who collects fossils.

It was the first de extinction in history.

Of the world's species, 12 of birds, 24 of mammals, and 30 of fish are either vulnerable or in immediate danger of extinction.

Captive breeding will be a major part of bringing back these species.

Rinchen and Chime had criticized a local police chief for hunting endangered animals.

Hunting depleted one horned rhino numbers to near extinction in the early 20th century.

Endangered Faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future.

It is predicted, however, that by 2030 up to 45 50 of these languages are likely to suffer from extinction.

I did not argue that whaling should stop because whales are endangered.

Central Asian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and currently facing extinction.

Kerosene saved the whales (which had been hunted almost to extinction to provide supposedly renewable whale oil for lighting).

Several fish species have been driven to the edge of extinction and some, such as the disturbed Tokios coral reef formations in the Indian Ocean, are effectively lost.

With the recent technological advances, where paper newspapers are going extinct because people read them online, this personable touch is rare to find.

Nearly all animal and plant species that have lived on Earth are now extinct, and extinction appears to be the ultimate fate of all species.

Despite the added emphasis for conservation, there is no indication that the extinctions that began with the arrival of humans have come to an end.

Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous population suffered near extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas.

About seven years ago, they faced extinction, because Israel announced it would build a separation barrier, and part of this barrier would be built on top of the village.

The third result of the Boston meeting was the realization that there are scientists all over the world working on various forms of de extinction, but they'd never met each other.

More than 80 of all endangered birds and mammals are threatened by unsustainable land use resulting from agricultural expansion.

In the 1940s, the Siberian tiger was on the brink of extinction with only about 40 animals remaining in the wild in Russia.

At a time when research and education in the Humanities are facing extinction, the Professorship aims at preserving and promoting the humanistic values of Greek civilization.

Texas wild rice is in danger of extinction due to loss of suitable habitat in its limited range and to pollution.

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people highlighted the danger of extinction faced by several communities in the departments of Amazonas, Putumayo, Caquetá and Guaviare.

Plant and animal species worldwide are vanishing at an unprecedented pace 100 to 1,000 times the natural extinction rate.

Some species may be in risk of extinction even without complete deforestation, such as ruffed lemurs, which are very sensitive to habitat disturbance.

However, in 1852, Christian was chosen as heir to the Danish monarchy in light of the expected extinction of the senior line of the House of Oldenburg.

One of the largest threats to their survival is pelagic industrial longline fishing. Leatherback sea turtles get hooked on longlines and often drown before the line is reeled and the sea turtle can be released.

Bottom trawlers drag heavy nets over the ocean bottom, destroying magnificent, unexplored, and endangered marine species in the process.

Such a world would preserve the 20,000 species of animals and plants that face extinction, understanding their power to heal us physically and spiritually.

Global demand for fish consumption is growing, and so, too, is the global capacity to catch fish, driving some species to the point of extinction.

However, during the early Paleocene, flora were relatively diverse with little predation from insects, even 1.7 million years after the extinction event.

After sable was hunted to extinction in Finland, the word was applied to any dark coated fur animal, such as the marten, which are found in the area to this day.

One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.

Within cartilaginous fish, approximately 80 of the sharks, rays, and skates families survived the extinction event, and more than 90 of teleost fish (bony fish) families survived.

Some can migrate, but others (such as polar bears) are likely to be driven to extinction unless we take decisive action to head off climate change.

In this context, the survival of other endothermic animals, such as some birds and mammals, could be due, among other reasons, to their smaller needs for food, related to their small size at the extinction epoch.

Their extinction possibly occurred as a direct result of hunting, but was more probably a result of widespread habitat changes brought about by human activities notably the use of fire.

Now, both species were hunted to the brink of extinction by the early whalers, but the Southern right whales have rebounded a lot better because they're located in places farther away from human activity.

And then there are just daily disasters that take place in these buildings, financial problems and mismanagement and equipment failures, and all kinds of things, and every time something like this happens, it means extinction. We lose diversity.