Word: extinct
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...dwindled from a peak of 122 in the late 1980s to a mere 17. By early spring, the number of unionized security guards fell to seven, and on June 30, when they will trade in their Harvard uniforms for company garb from Allied Security, their breed will be completely extinct...
...which scavenges by night, cleaning the bush and farmlands of dead and dying animals, then retreating with daylight to dens among the ferns and heath. But the animal settlers once feared is now one of Tasmania?s favorite symbols, adorning souvenir key rings and sports-club logos. Unlike the extinct thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, devils survived decades of now-banned hunting, and are still considered common. But perhaps not for long. A grotesque disease is striking devils down, just as a new predator readies itself to seize their place at the top of Tasmania?s ecological pecking order...
...Species that could be extinct by 2050 if global-warming trends continue...
...current rates of habitat destruction continue, orangutans will be extinct within 10 to 20 years, according to an article published by a Harvard researcher in this month’s National Geographic magazine...
...Howard and his son, Bruce, who was in high school at the time, took a trip to the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat in search of a now-extinct plant...