Word: extinct
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...single-digit a.m. study breaks with double cheeseburgers and greasy french fires may not yet be extinct in Harvard Square...
...walls of his office, pictures of plaster figures of dinosaurs found in Mongolia, a reproduction portrait of a Manchu by a Jesuit and a scroll written in Jurchen calligraphy, an extinct language from northern China. Then there are his bookshelves, where books about everything from Dharma art to Bronze Age transportation are written in languages including French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic...
Fossils unearthed in Emery County, Utah, are the first for terrestrial animals and plants from a historical gap that began 145 million years ago and continued until just a few millions years before the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, Cifelli said...
However, these species appear to become extinct every few thousand years. But entirely new asexual species then appear, Meselson says...
Sharks were the first creatures in evolutionary history to develop an immune system. Biomedical researchers believe that if we can figure out how theirs works we'll gain valuable insights into our own. A shark could someday save your life--if it isn't already extinct...