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With the extinction of large [[Dinosaur]]s at the end of the [[Cretaceous period]] ~65 Million

...of the [[Black-footed Ferret|black-footed ferret]] and may have caused the extinction of the [[Thylacine|Tasmanian tiger]]. The lion population in Serengeti, Tan ...phe is one of the methods that RIB takes against CDB, as it triggers viral extinction. The conclusion is that RIB may eventually be an effective method of treati

* A recent unexplained extinction event, the Pleistocene extinction which occurred at the end of the Ice Age. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mu ...istribution of the extinctions. The theory that man hunted the animals to extinction fails to explain why so many animals disappeared in North America while man

* A recent unexplained extinction event, the Pleistocene extinction which occurred at the end of the Ice Age. <ref>{{cite journal|url=http://ww ...istribution of the extinctions. The theory that man hunted the animals to extinction fails to explain why so many animals disappeared in North America while man

...ssed 6 October 2006.</ref> This indicates that it is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild because the extent of its occurrence within its geographic rang

...s including, but not limited to, [[desertification]], [[deforestation]], [[extinction]] and [[radioactivity]]. Some of the major causes of such degradation incl ...populations to any degree. Such degradation on a global scale could imply extinction for humanity.

...ucture acquires meaning only when the purpose is known. He established the extinction of past lifeforms as an accepted scientific fact. ...n events that appear in the fossil record, such as the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

...he species is not critically endangered, but is facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future. This is due to an observed, estimated, infe

...990: 5).</ref><ref>Daniel Nettle & Suzanne Romaine, ''Vanishing Voices:The extinction of the world's languages'', 2000</ref>

...le = It's the Demography, Stupid: The real reason the West is in danger of extinction | date = 4 January 2006

...tles orriginate from the islands; the Seychelles giant tortoise, hunted to extinction in the wild; the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, named after the Seychelle's Aldabr

...and probably wood representing both holdovers from the [[Permian–Triassic extinction event]] event like glossopetrids (a type of tree) and [[dicynodonts]] (a fo ...[mammals]] which would eventually dominate the planet after the Cretaceous extinction event<ref name="Berger"/>.

...90: 5).</ref><ref>Daniel Nettle & Suzanne Romaine, ''Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages'', 2000.</ref>

...ation that normally lived only 14 years would be seriously on the verge of extinction. There is no evidence to suggest rapid evolution upward in the age of puber

...r breeds into the line to emphasize certain traits, to keep the breed from extinction or to alleviate problems caused in the breed by inbreeding from a limited s

Fouriezos G, Wise RA (1976) Pimozide-induced extinction of intracranial self-stimulation: response patterns rule out motor or perfo

...CITES Appendix II, which means that it is not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may become so if it is not listed.<ref name="CITES">[http://www.unep-w

...cies is listed on CITES Appendix I, which means that it is threatened with extinction if trade is not halted,<ref name="CITES">[http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/CIT

...ervation. This use has coincided with the increasing concern over rising [[extinction]] rates observed in the last decades of the 20th century. ...sing the [[IUCN Red List]] criteria, are now listed as [[threatened]] with extinction - a total of 16,119 species.[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/0

...the [[nineteenth century]], the [[great auk]] was [[hunting|hunted]] to [[extinction]] by [[whaling|whalers]]; 1930s [[science|scientist]]s speculated that peng

*''The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relative'' (1995) MacMillan. (republished by Westview

...tween the major Romance languages have been moving toward [[language death|extinction]], partly because of the French government's attitude towards what they cal

...anguage (general)|languages]] then seen as doomed to [[language extinction|extinction]] (these were the languages of native North America on which the first memb

...numerous species resulted in bringing those species almost to the brink of extinction. The story of DDT as related in [[Rachel Carson]]'s "[[Silent Spring]]" is

...reatened,” because they are at high risk of becoming endangered and facing extinction in a short amount of time. Conservation efforts include [[turtle excluder d

...hose [[species]] had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of [[extinction]]. What would be its feelings toward the [[human]] species whose [[populati

...ting dinosaur bones to look for iridium to show that a meteor caused their extinction

*[[Extinction]]

==Facing Extinction== ...ere the last ape to be found and could possibly be the first to enter into extinction. As mentioned before they are found in only one place on earth and a troub

Study of the immune system in extant and [[extinction|extinct]] species is capable of giving us a key understanding of the [[evol

...ve anteosaurs. By the end of the Permian Period, during the Permo-Triassic Extinction event (~250 MYA) the whole group had become extinct. As well as deposits in

* Sheehan, Bernard W. ''Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian'' (1973)

===Extinction=== {{main|Extinction}}

...is considered critical. In the 1940s Siberian tigers were brought to near extinction, with only about 40 animals remaining in the wild. The population has recov

...taken into hiding, during the war, which saved the Bouviers from complete extinction. Their fate was not unlike that of the Jews of these countries. The fact th

...the vast [[biodiversity]] of living systems on Earth, including the many [[extinction|extinct]] species attested in the [[fossil record]]. An evolutionary persp ...d the evolutionary history of numerous [[Lineage (evolution)|lineages]]. [[Extinction event|Mass extinctions]] frequently resulted in the loss of entire groups o

...lution, their structure and function, their origin, self-organization, the extinction of individuals as well as species, and the genesis of higher modes of life.

*''Towards Gondwana Alive: promoting biodiversity and stemming the sixth extinction'' (Gondwana Alive Soc. Press, 1999)

...ndix_II|Appendix II]] by CITES meaning this species is not threatened with extinction, but may become so unless trade in specimens of such species is subject to

***[[Vetulicolia]] [[extinction|†]] ***[[Lobopodia]] [[extinction|†]]

...required to maintain the subspecies no longer exists, making its eventual extinction very likely. Currently, there are breeding efforts to reintroduce these tig ...always been limited to the island of [[Bali]]. These tigers were hunted to extinction – the last Balinese tiger is thought to have been killed at Sumbar Kima,

...extinction by the revitalization of Hinduism and later it was brought near extinction by the hordes of Muslim invaders pouring down from central Asia into northe ...entioned earlier, Nepal preserved the religion when it was in the verge of extinction in India. However, Buddhism took a different turn when it got changed as a

...nguage= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>, right at the point of extinction of many of the North American primates and at a point of general loss of ma

...y those of the [[geochronology|erathems]], are marked by [[Extinction|mass extinction]]s, in turn associated with physical events such as extreme volcanic activi ...nimals'', combined here to denote new life. This marked the end of a major extinction of dinosaurs, foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils etc. and the emergence

...ation that normally lived only 14 years would be seriously on the verge of extinction. There is no evidence to suggest rapid evolution upward in the age of puber

...nces of the Greeks, and there followed a climate of repression and gradual extinction of scholarship and scientific learning.

...Rome are at this very moment plotting our destruction and threatening the extinction of our political, civil, and religious institutions. We have the best reaso

...S Arch Pharmacol''</ref> <ref>Fouriezos G, Wise RA (1976) Pimozide-induced extinction of intracranial self-stimulation: response patterns rule out motor or perfo

...n full awakening. These eight factors of spiritual practice leading to the extinction of suffering.

...e Battle of Kursk in ''Panzer Blitz'' confronting the enemy meant possible extinction. The hardest part to accept was the situation where three German tanks blo