Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray whale, once considered virtually extinct, is alive and multiplying in the lagoons along the coast of Baja California. That news was reported last week by Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Hubbs credited the whale's comeback to Mexico's ban on hunting and its designation of a large lagoon as a whale sanctuary. According to Hubbs, four other supposedly doomed species are also winning the fight against extinction. The northern elephant seal and the Guadalupe fur seal are both doing well on the tiny remote island of Guadalupe off Baja. The sea otter...
...played this P.O. Wodehouse stereotype with such consistent charm that audiences usually assume that Niven is like that too. Not at all. In The Moon's a Balloon, his racy autobiography, Niven offers himself as a tough, ambitious international playboy-a well-preserved specimen of that almost extinct species, the gilded barfly...
...were indeed responsible, their presence would indicate that there is more water in the polar cap (which is composed largely of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice) than anyone had supposed. Mariner has also discovered four craters that the U.S. Geological Survey's Harold Masursky and others believe are extinct volcanoes, one of them relatively young. Exobiologists are excited by the finding because they think that most of the amino-acid-building gases in the earth's primordial atmosphere were belched forth by volcanoes...
...enticing theory put forth a few years ago by Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. who said that the apparent behavior of Phobos in orbit meant that it could be hollow. That in turn suggested to Shklovskii that the moonlet might be an artificial satellite, lofted into orbit by a long-extinct Martian civilization. Instead, Mariner's photos have revealed that both moonlets are irregular-shaped hunks of rock, pockmarked with craters...
Says Hsu: "If through my work children two centuries hence may be able to see extinct species live again, I feel that I will have left a worthwhile legacy...