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  1. extinctions

    Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of extinctions in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of extinctions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of extinctions in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Pask:

    We would strongly advocate that first and foremost we need to protect our biodiversity from further extinctions, but unfortunately we are not seeing a slowing down in species loss, this technology offers a chance to correct this and could be applied in exceptional circumstances where cornerstone species have been lost.

  2. Margaret Hunter:

    We’ve seen that these pythons can remove 90 percent or greater of the mammals throughout the Everglades, so, we’re quite concerned about the populations of these animals in South Florida potentially leading to local extinctions of these populations.

  3. Jan Zalasiewicz:

    Global warming as a phenomenon is just beginning, species extinctions and other changes are far more advanced.

  4. Peter Crockford:

    Over the 100 to 200 million years before this die-off event there was a large amount of life on the planet, but after this event a huge portion died off, however, instead of recovering like more recent mass extinctions, the amount of life on the planet or size of the biosphere stayed small for the following billion years of Earths historyabout two billion to one billion years ago.

  5. Mark Krockenberger:

    We run a very high risk, if this vaccine strategy doesn't work... of localized extinctions.

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