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Others take the machines absence as proof that intelligent alien civilizations don't exist, or that they go extinct before they can develop the necessary technologies.
They came from an extinct giant sloth.
Researchers think that ground sloths could have been pushed out by an oncoming ice age, or competition with other species, maybe humans, who arrived in the region around the time most of the sloths went extinct.
And then around the end of the last ice age, North American camels went extinct.
Most all of them went extinct except us.
And once he had finally decided what he was going to buy, the jeweler said to him, "You know, you're very lucky that you're buying this now, because these pearls could go extinct very soon because of climate change."
And somewhere there's a doctor with a wack haircut in a black lab coat trying to find a cure for the diseases that are gonna make us all extinct for real one day.
Now, this species here is so new I'm not even allowed to tell you its name yet, but I can tell you it's a new species from Mexico, and it's probably already extinct.
It's probably extinct because the only known cave system it's from was destroyed when a dam was built nearby.
But I hope we discover this species before it goes extinct too.
And when those animals went extinct, you know, the ecosystems didn't stand still.
This mushroom grows in Washington State, Oregon, northern California, British Columbia, now thought to be extinct in Europe.
Those are nearly extinct.
Some have gone extinct while others are endangered.
But part of the reason I found this interesting is, I started noticing that we're very aware of all the species that are going extinct on the planet as a result of human habitation expansion, and no one seems to be paying attention to all the species that are actually living; they're surviving.
And by the way, that's happened five times on Earth, and therefore it is very likely that the human species on Earth is going to go extinct someday.
He talked mostly about animals and plants, but also about languages evolving and becoming extinct.
They deserve to go extinct."
Prostitutes, women and women who work as prostitutes still haven't gone extinct, despite centuries of active suppression.
In "The Descent of Man," he wrote, "In each great region of the world, the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region.
It's therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and as these two species are now man's nearest allies, it's somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere."
These are three extinct species of hominids, potential human ancestors.
Three extinct species, same place, same time.
We nearly went extinct.
Furthermore does hardly anyone speak about the fact that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with up to 200 species going extinct every single day, that the extinction rate today is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than what is seen as normal.
But because of their dependence on sometimes just one pollinator species, orchids are also vulnerable, and many quickly go extinct.
And that if we don't do that, the antithesis, although we've heard otherwise, is we're really going to become extinct, because we're feeding our children to death.
And I think eventually it will allow us to colonize and to keep us from going extinct.
Researchers at Kansas University who were studying mollusks found that a high metabolism predicted which species of mollusk had gone extinct.
And in fact, if you guys live on the West Coast, go to these websites here, and they're really looking for people to look for some of these bumblebees, because we think some have gone extinct.
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