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Example sentences for "extinct species"

  • Christol were of extinct species; but whether the animals enumerated by M.

  • This Belgian man is believed to have lived before the mammoth and the cave bear had passed away, yet he does not belong to an extinct species or even variety of man.

  • Still we must bear in mind that we may often be mistaken in reasoning as to the temperature required by extinct species of plants differing from those now in existence.

  • The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species.

  • The proportion of extinct species of quadrupeds is more numerous in the fossil remains of the gravel No.

  • In the northern part of the Isle of Wight formations of marl and limestone, more than 50 feet thick occur, in which the shells are of extinct species.

  • On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species.

  • Professor Owen soon perceived that the tooth, though so like that of the existing horse, belonged to an extinct species.

  • Whilst the Molluscs thus become rapidly modernised, the Mammals still all belong to extinct species, though modern generic types gradually supersede the more antiquated forms of the Miocene.

  • In the Post-Pliocene formations, while all the Mollusca belong to existing species, most of the Mammals belong to extinct species.

  • The Pliocene formations contain from 40 to 95 per cent of existing species of Mollusca, the remainders belonging to extinct species.

  • In the oldest secondary strata there are no remains of such animals as now belong to the surface; and in the rocks which may be regarded as more recently deposited, these remains occur but rarely, and with abundance of extinct species.

  • Of these the most remarkable are the plesiosaurus, the megalosaurus, the iguanodon, and the crocodile of Maestricht, all belonging to extinct species.

  • Some of them are of recent, others of extinct species.

  • In the northern part of the Isle of Wight a formation of marl and limestone, more than 50 feet thick, occurs, in which the shells are principally, if not all, of extinct species.

  • Having noticed these curious remains, principally of extinct species of animal life, the visitor should at once turn to the table cases which contain the last of the illustrations of the mineral kingdom.

  • The western wall case is filled with a curious collection of various fossil parts of an extinct species of rhinoceros found in this country, also skulls of the rhinoceros dug up in Siberia.

  • Will not the reader peep with us into this singular camera lucida, where an extinct species, though fitfully, can still be seen alive?

  • In the matter of cryptic survivals of extinct species I can believe a good deal.

  • They will soon be an extinct species,' said Mr. Macrae.

  • Are there any more survivors of extinct species?

  • Will not the reader peep with us into this singular camera lucida, where an extinct species, though fitfully, can still be seen alive?

  • In 1797, unpolished flint axes were dug out in great numbers from a brick-field near Hoxne, county of Suffolk, where they occurred at a depth of twelve feet, mingled with the bones of extinct species of animals.


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