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Extinction is the termination of a species via the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member...

Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K–T) extinction event, was a major mass extinction of three-quarters (75%)...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Holocene or Anthropocene extinction is an...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Permian–Triassic extinction event, colloquially...

world. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinctions in which the species no longer lives anywhere worldwide. Local extinctions often mark a...

Human extinction, or omnicide, refers to the possible ending of the human species, either by population decline due to singular natural events—for example...

Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a UK-founded global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel...

De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of human intervention to generate an organism that either resembles...

Look up extinction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Extinction, in biology and palaeontology, is the end of a species or other taxon. Extinction may also...

Resident Evil: Extinction is a 2007 action horror film directed by Russell Mulcahy and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. A direct sequel to Resident Evil:...

Neanderthal extinction Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission of...

Attenuation coefficient, sometimes called "extinction coefficient" in meteorology or climatology Mass extinction coefficient, how strongly a substance absorbs...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Devonian mass extinction, also known...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event...

Survivor: Edge of Extinction is the 38th season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. Broadcast between February 20 and May 15...

Extinction is a 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Ben Young and written by Spenser Cohen and Brad Kane. The film is about a father...

up extinction event in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An extinction event, in biology and paleontology, refers to a mass extinction. Extinction Event...

The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna, typically defined as animal species...

The Sixth Extinction or Holocene extinction is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch. Sixth Extinction may also refer...

Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Dark of...

Countdown to Extinction is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released on July 14, 1992, through Capitol Records. It was the...

Extinctionism and extinctionist may refer to: Various theories about extinction of species, human race, social classes, etc. Extinctionism (religious concept)...

Extinction (formerly known as Welcome to Harmony) is a 2015 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas who also co-wrote the screenplay...

Olson's Extinction is a hypothesised extinction event that is suggested to have occurred around 273 million years ago in the late Cisuralian or early...

Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that: It disappears from the fossil record, or historic reports of its existence...

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the...

Extinction in psychology refers to the gradual decrease and possible elimination of a learned behavior. This behavioral phenomenon can be observed in both...

Bird extinction is the complete elimination of all species members within the taxonomic class Aves. Out of all known bird species, (approximately 11,154)...

In astronomy, extinction is the absorption and scattering of electromagnetic radiation by dust and gas between an emitting astronomical object and the...

The extinction symbol represents the threat of holocene extinction on Earth; a circle represents the planet and a stylised hourglass is a warning that...

In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery...

least three, and possibly four major extinction events in the Permian, though the validity of some of these extinctions has been disputed. The end of the...

Extinction vortices are types of extinction causing the population dynamics to "spiral" in a feedback loop, i.e., for small populations to become increasingly...

is a related term limited to events that could cause full-blown human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's existence or potential...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Capitanian mass extinction event began around...

Highest risk of extinction in the wild Endangered (EN) – Higher risk of extinction in the wild Vulnerable (VU) – High risk of extinction in the wild Near...

Second extinction may refer to: Second Extinction, a video game Late Devonian extinction, second of the five most severe extinction events in the history...

Background extinction rate (BER), also known as the normal extinction rate, refers to the standard rate of extinction in Earth's geological and biological...

Extinction is a neurological disorder that impairs the ability to simultaneously perceive multiple stimuli of the same type. Extinction is usually caused...

Visual extinction is a neurological disorder which occurs following damage to the parietal lobe of the brain. It is similar to, but distinct from, hemispatial...

became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201.3 mya and their dominance continued throughout the Jurassic...

lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem...

This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...

In telecommunications, extinction ratio (re) is the ratio of two optical power levels of a digital signal generated by an optical source, e.g., a laser...

"E is for Extinction" was the first story arc from Grant Morrison's run on the Marvel Comics title New X-Men. The story was published in New X-Men #114–116...

Undulose extinction or undulatory extinction is a geological term referring to the type of extinction that occurs in certain minerals when examined in...

E-OG Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also...

Phanerozoic Eon. The start and the end of the Triassic Period featured major extinction events. Chronologically, the Triassic Period is divided into three epochs:...

ISBN 9780486642284. OCLC 264445223. Lai, H. M.; Wong, W. Y.; Wong, W. H. (2004). "Extinction paradox and actual power scattered in light beam scattering: A two-dimensional...

and producer for Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), and returned as the director for Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)...

Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction is a 2003 real-time strategy video game developed by Zono and co-published by Fox Interactive and Electronic Arts (EA)...

The Aptian extinction event (AEE) was an extinction event that occurred during the Aptian stage of the early Cretaceous Period around 116 or 117 million...

extinctions, which is unprecented in previous extinctions during the last 30 million years. Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to...

Sharkwater Extinction is a 2018 Canadian documentary film directed by Rob Stewart. It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. A sequel...

The Anthropocene Extinction is the sixth studio album by American death metal band Cattle Decapitation. It was released on August 7, 2015, on Metal Blade...

subsequent end-Devonian extinction, which occurred at around 359 Ma, further impacted the ecosystems and completed the extinction of all calcite sponge...

conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. A series of Regional Red Lists, which assess the risk of extinction to species within a political...

The white genocide, white extinction, or white replacement conspiracy theory is a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims there is a deliberate...

Extinction is a term used in optical mineralogy and petrology, which describes when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral...

Racing Extinction is a 2015 documentary about the ongoing anthropogenic mass extinction of species and the efforts from scientists, activists, and journalists...

Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front is the third studio album by American rapper and record producer Busta Rhymes. It was released on December...

Second Extinction was a cooperative first-person shooter developed and published by Systemic Reaction for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. In the...

extinction events. In the Carboniferous, rainforest collapse may have led to a great loss of plant and animal life. The Permian–Triassic extinction event...

Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species is a 2016 book by Ursula K. Heise. Centered on the influence of cultural values on the...

sixth extinction. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during...

Extinction: The Facts is a 2020 documentary film by the natural historian David Attenborough which aired on the BBC. It depicts the continuing sixth mass...

"The Sixth Extinction" is the first episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It was first shown on the Fox network...

My Extinction is a 2023 documentary film directed by Josh Appignanesi. It tells of his personal journey to climate activism and his involvement with the...

and extinction of previously widespread gymnosperm groups. The Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event...

Highest risk of extinction in the wild Endangered (EN) – Higher risk of extinction in the wild Vulnerable (VU) – High risk of extinction in the wild Near...

Extinction is the first studio album by New York City crust punk band Nausea. It was released in 1990 on Profane Existence. Bass, Vocals - John John Jesse...

Extinction(s) is the seventh studio album by American metalcore band Unearth, released on November 23, 2018, via Century Media. This is their first album...

Primal Carnage: Extinction is an asymmetrical multiplayer game released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4. It features human versus dinosaur combat...

Eating Our Way to Extinction is a 2021 documentary film, which focuses on the problem of unsustainable meat production and its effects on the environment...

nuclear warfare, potentially causing the collapse of civilization, the extinction of humanity, or the termination of most biological life on Earth. Besides...

Quasi-extinction refers to the state in which a species or population has declined to critically low numbers, making its recovery highly unlikely, even...

Sorrow and Extinction is the debut studio album by the American doom metal band Pallbearer. It was released on February 21, 2012 via Profound Lore Records...

of both new species appearing and extinctions. Very occasionally, the record also appears to show mass extinctions of insects, understood to be caused...

Georges Cuvier in 1796. Cuvier demonstrated evidence for the concept of extinction and how the life of the past was not necessarily the same as that of the...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event, also...

Ecological extinction is "the reduction of a species to such low abundance that, although it is still present in the community, it no longer interacts...

alphabetical list Ex situ conservation Extinction Ecological extinction Lists of extinct species Local extinction Nature conservation Wildlife conservation...

Extinction threshold is a term used in conservation biology to explain the point at which a species, population or metapopulation, experiences an abrupt...

EOE: Eve of Extinction is a 2002 beat 'em up video game developed by Yuke's and published by Eidos Interactive exclusively for PlayStation 2. The game...

Paleoindians may have been a contributory factor in their extinction. The timing of the extinction of the dwarf Sardinian mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorai is...

determine the effective population size when a population is at risk for extinction. The effects of a population bottleneck often depend on the number of...

threshold of 50 years without a sighting was used to declare extinction. One study found that extinction from habitat loss is the hardest to detect, as this might...

The End-Ediacaran extinction, also called the Kotlin Crisis, is a mass extinction believed to have occurred near the end of the Ediacaran period, the...

survivors of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event took advantage of empty ecological niches left behind by the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs...

signed the following short Statement on AI Risk: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks...

In optics, the Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem, sometimes referred to as just the extinction theorem, is a theorem that underlies the common understanding...

Endling: Extinction is Forever is an indie survival-adventure game developed by Barcelona-based studio Herobeat Studios and published by German HandyGames...

The snail extinction prevention program (SEPP) or Hawai’i snail extinction prevention program, is a partnership between US Fish and Wildlife Service, the...

extinction event, the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, and ended with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, another mass extinction whose...

Bates Motel (2013–2015) and Tessa Yeager in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). Nicola Anne Peltz was born on January 9, 1995, in Westchester...

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) comprises 100 non-governmental biodiversity conservation organizations working to prevent species extinctions by identifying...

Akaash Meeda, and Laura Scrivano as directors. Under its working title of Extinction, filming took place in second quarter of 2021 in Cardiff, Bristol,Prague...

Extinction is an action game developed by Iron Galaxy and published by Modus Games. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in 2018...

years ago. Intensive hunting on Tasmania is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributing factors were disease, the introduction of and...

K–Pg boundary is associated with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction which destroyed a majority of the world's Mesozoic species...

Botomian Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The end-Botomian mass extinction event, also...

Psalms of Extinction is the fifth studio album by the Swedish industrial metal project Pain, released on 16 April 2007 in Europe's Nordic territories and...

the intended direct-to-DVD Stargate Atlantis movie entitled Stargate: Extinction was cancelled. Stargate Atlantis follows the present-day adventures of...

several plausible pathways that could lead to plant and animal species extinction from climate change. Every species has evolved to exist within a certain...

Spielberg's initial idea. These final scenes inspired the title Jurassic Park: Extinction, although the filmmakers decided against this name as it seemed to suggest...

Extinction chess is a chess variant invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor of Games magazine, in 1985. Instead of checkmate as the winning condition...

two males represent the first living examples of the species since its extinction approximately 10,000 years ago. Khaleesi, a female, was born later, on...

The Dinosaurs Extinction (Spanish: La extinción de los dinosaurios) is a 2014 Mexican television comedy film written and directed by Luis Ayhllon. It is...

In conservation biology, latent extinction risk is a measure of the potential for a species to become threatened. Latent risk can most easily be described...

event, also known as the Hangenberg crisis or end-Devonian extinction, is a mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Famennian, the last stage in...

Ghosts also features an alternative co-operative shooter mode titled Extinction, acting as a spiritual successor to the Zombies co-operative PvE gamemodes...

with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) winning the latter. He has also been criticized for objectifying...

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event) occurred at the end of this age. In this mass extinction, many commonly...

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 is a 1995 history book by David Wallace Adams that covers the...

(2007), Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dark of the Moon (2011), Age of Extinction (2014), and The Last Knight (2017), and has served as a producer for subsequent...

A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda is a side-scrolling platform shooter for Windows. It was developed by Thai independent developer Extend Studio. An updated version...

Extinction Rebellion Youth (abbreviated as XRY and shortened to XR Youth) is the autonomous youth wing of the global environmental movement Extinction...

The epoch is bracketed by two major events in Earth's history. The K–Pg extinction event, brought on by an asteroid impact (Chicxulub impact) and possibly...

Extinction Level Event is the fifth studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel, released on September 5, 2025 on Reversed Records. It is...

Mesozoic and Paleozoic. The Cenozoic started with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, when many species, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct...

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them is a 2022 book by Dan Saladino that examines rare foods. The book won the 2022...

This timeline of extinctions is a chronological list of biological species, subspecies, and other evolutionary significant units recorded to have disappeared...

amphibian populations, including population decline and localized mass extinctions, have been observed in locations all over the world. This type of biodiversity...

Stress: The Extinction Agenda is the second full-length album by Queens hip hop duo Organized Konfusion, released on August 16, 1994, on Hollywood BASIC...

Bird's eye extinction, or bird's eye maple, is a specific type of extinction exhibited by minerals of the mica group under cross polarized light of the...

Appetite for Extinction is an album by Some Velvet Sidewalk. It was released in 1990. Trouser Press wrote that "between the epic grind of 'Snow' and the...

"Extinction" is the 55th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the third episode of season three. It first aired...

The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/; hominids /ˈhɒmɪnɪdz/), whose members are known as the great apes, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant...

rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year. List of extinct animals Extinction event Quaternary extinction event Holocene extinction Timeline...

million years ago during the Miocene, with the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō's extinction marking the first extinction of an entire avian family in over 500 years.[citation needed]...

protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject...

research has been conducted on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era and set the...

Guide to Extinction is the third studio album of industrial rock band Nocturne. It was their first studio album after 2001's Welcome to Paradise. The album...

"Historic extinctions: a Rosetta stone for understanding prehistoric extinctions". In Martin PS, Klein RG (eds.). Quaternary extinctions: A prehistoric...

therapsids, a minor extinction event called Olson's Extinction and a significant mass extinction called the end-Capitanian extinction event. The Guadalupian...

The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy is the fourth studio album by the American composer Christopher Tin. The music was performed by the Royal Philharmonic...

series of secondary extinctions that are triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem. Secondary extinctions are likely to occur...

experienced an extinction event. It has been referred to as the Tithonian extinction, Jurassic-Cretaceous (J–K) extinction, or end-Jurassic extinction. This event...

posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by...

The Toarcian extinction event, also called the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event, the Early Toarcian mass extinction, the Early Toarcian palaeoenvironmental...

cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum. Extinct language Language...

The extinction cross is an optical phenomenon that is seen when trying to extinguish a laser beam or non-planar white light using crossed polarizers. Ideally...

populated with dinosaur audio-animatronics. Originally named Countdown to Extinction when the park opened on April 22, 1998, the ride was re-named to Dinosaur...

suggested the eruptions were a major cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction event at roughly the same time, this theory has been rejected as a result...

Extinction is the last of Thomas Bernhard's novels. It was originally published in German in 1986. Extinction is ostensibly a posthumously published autobiography...

Countdown to Extinction: Live is a live album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released on September 24, 2013, through Dave Mustaine's Tradecraft...

Sing Street (2016). His other notable films include Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Glassland (2014), Macbeth (2015), Midsommar (2019) and Lee Cronin's...

Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God is the tenth studio album by American rapper Busta Rhymes, published on October 30, 2020. The album features...

In population genetics, extinction probability is the chance of an inherited trait becoming extinct as a function of time t. If t = ∞ this may be the complement...

process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names. The process models family names as patrilineal (passed...

The start of the Jurassic was marked by the major Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, associated with the eruption of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province...

intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) will lead to human extinction or an irreversible global catastrophe. One argument for the validity of...

severity of the event, ranging from temporary economic disruption to human extinction. Many societal collapses have already happened throughout human history...

The Ascension of Extinction is the third EP by melodic death metal band Symphony of Heaven. The EP was the band's debut with Rottweiler Records, a Ft....

SAVE (Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction) is a consortium of conservation groups focused on vulture conservation in Asia. Established with support...

"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was...

Carnian and seems to be associated with important extinctions or biotic radiations. Another extinction occurred at the Carnian-Norian boundary, ending the...

Children of the Great Extinction is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Becoming the Archetype. The album was released on August 26, 2022...

Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of March 2026, of the 172,620 species currently on the...

1000 cm2/mol. The molar absorption coefficient is also known as the molar extinction coefficient and molar absorptivity, but the use of these alternative terms...

Extinction Rebellion (XR), a 2018 UK-founded environmental movement, has since spread to the rest of Europe, the United States, and other countries, forming...

when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language...

ecosystems of the Holocene continued to be impacted by extinctions (the ongoing Holocene extinction), largely of human causation. In July 2018, the International...

Conservation-induced extinction is where efforts to save endangered species lead to the extinction of other species. This mostly threatens the parasite...

believed to be the primary cause of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, the most severe extinction event in the geologic record. Subsequent periods of Siberian...

first extinction event here back to Toba. Haplogroups with extinction event notes by them have a dubious origin and this is because extinction events...

activists, and researchers who travel around the world exposing the extinction of sharks. Leonardo DiCaprio and Nina Dobrev serve as executive producers...

destruction is in fact the leading cause of biodiversity loss and species extinction worldwide. Humans contribute to habitat destruction through the use of...

This timeline of extinctions is a chronological list of biological species, subspecies, and other evolutionary significant units recorded to have disappeared...

Simels (1991-04-05). "Club Extinction Review". EW. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2011-08-22. "Club Extinction Review". TV Guide. Archived...

destroyed. The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. Its extinction was not immediately noticed, and some considered the bird to be a myth...

Single Particle Extinction and Scattering (SPES) is a technique in physics that is used to characterise micro and nanoparticles suspended in a fluid through...

his lab in Boston. Lamm was intrigued by press reports of Church's de-extinction idea. Colossal was officially launched on September 13, 2021. The launch...

The accuracy of these dates for bird extinctions varies wildly between one entry and another. Hypothetical species, which cannot be proven to have existed...

severity of the extinction as a whole, is reminiscent of the Late Devonian extinction events. Another similarity is how the Serpukhovian extinction was seemingly...

continue after his death, and to preclude an otherwise certain rapid extinction of the peerage. In all cases the course of descent specified in the patent...

dispersal of H. erectus and descendant species may be implicated in the extinctions of large herbivores and the gradual reduction of average herbivore size...

extinction events, including the Taghanic event, the Late Devonian mass extinction/Kellwasser event and the Hangenberg/end-Devonian mass extinction,...

indicates the phase velocity, while the imaginary part κ is called the extinction coefficient indicates the amount of attenuation when the electromagnetic...

Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction is a 1986 book written by Robert T. Bakker exploring extant evidence indicating...

The Pyrenean ibex is the first animal to have been brought back from extinction through cloning and also the only one to become extinct twice. Multiple...

voicing the character of Janessa Jensen in the audio-drama series Heroes of Extinction for Adventurous Ideas, LLC. In January 2022, Gibbs spoke on a panel at...

Language endangerment and extinction in Africa is the decline and gradual disappearance of indigenous African tongues. As a region, Africa is one of the...

imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate...

focused on preventing extinction risk from artificial superintelligence. Leahy has warned about the threat of human extinction from artificial superintelligence...

boundary extinction (see below) at the end of the Smithian subage. Ray-finned fishes largely remained unaffected by the Permian-Triassic extinction event...

were several other factors contributing to the decline and subsequent extinction of the species, including shrinking of the large breeding populations...

Evil: Apocalypse (he reprised the role in the sequel, Resident Evil: Extinction). He provided the voice of Doctor Fate in Justice League and its sequel...

is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure (the "Great Break" in continuity) or the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, which may be...

genome, states in her 2015 book How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction that a mammoth will never be cloned; at least not one that is pure mammoth...

Android Apocalypse (also known as Facing Extinction) is a 2006 science fiction film starring Scott Bairstow and Joseph Lawrence. The film was written by...

for reproduction. Such practices can result in extinction at the population level and even extinction of whole species. In conservation biology, the term...

(Early Triassic epoch). The greatest mass extinction in the Phanerozoic eon, the Permian–Triassic extinction event, occurred around the end of this age...

Rewriting Earth (formerly Rewriting Extinction) is a charity that raises awareness for both the climate and the biodiversity crisis through comics, videos...

"On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet written by the English poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth composed the sonnet...

Electrical impedance Environmental remediation for natural attenuation Extinction (astronomy) ITU-R P.525 Mean free path Path loss Radar horizon Radiation...

concluded to be partly responsible for bringing the species close to extinction, along with farmers killing rhinos to defend their crops in areas close...

Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). He advocates for the voluntary cessation of human reproduction to gradually achieve the extinction of humankind...

Paolini's novel Eragon. In 2007, he played a small role in Resident Evil: Extinction, the third movie in the Resident Evil series. In the summer of 2009, he...

10,000 years ago, according to dated remains. Its extinction occurred during the Quaternary extinction event, disappearing along with its main prey species;...

host. Their research focuses on eschatology, existential risk, and human extinction. Along with computer scientist Timnit Gebru, Torres coined the neologism...

is the only documented plant extinction from this geologic era. Hypotheses as to what specifically drove the extinction remain unresolved, but rapid and...

warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction, and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse. Some...

species. More evidence that this extinction was facilitated by human interaction is that the time period in which the extinction occurred was characterised...

diversified dramatically around the time of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago, which killed off the pterosaurs and all non-ornithuran...

mass extinction, often comprising an accumulation of smaller extinction events over a relatively brief period. The first known mass extinction was the...

Branching process theory provides a tractable framework for calculating extinction probabilities for population processes in cases where individuals act...

impact was the primary cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction of 75% of plant and animal species on Earth, including all...

showed that sexual selection protected even an inbred population against extinction. Ronald Fisher, the English statistician and evolutionary biologist, developed...

Eoraptor. The Triassic–Jurassic extinction event began during this epoch and is one of the five major mass extinction events of the Earth. The Triassic...

that produced the Emeishan Traps. This extinction event may be related to the much larger Permian–Triassic extinction event that followed about 10 million...

observational artifacts that appear to occur either because of (local) extinction, later resupplied, or as a sampling artifact. The fossil record is inherently...

by Europeans, the slow-moving and easily caught mammal was hunted into extinction for its meat, fat, and hide. Some 18th-century adults would have reached...

Sinsk anoxic extinction event, this triggered the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic, the 513–508 Ma Botomian–Toyonian Extinction (BTE), which...

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction is a 2015 non-fiction book by biologist Beth Shapiro and published by Princeton University Press....

list of recently extinct butterflies, their former ranges, and dates of extinction. Libythea cinyras (Mauritius, 1866) Mbashe River buff, Deloneura immaculata...

suggested to be the first extinction of a plant or animal species in recorded history. The cause of silphium's supposed extinction is not entirely known,...

could be found in abundance. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically short...

the saving of endangered species when they saved the white rhino from extinction (Operation Rhino). Born in Johannesburg, Player spent his first years...

Basalt Group. Large igneous provinces have been connected to five mass extinction events, and may be associated with bolide impacts. Flood basalts are the...

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 Ma killed off the non-avian dinosaurs, mammals increased rapidly in size and diversity. Such mass extinctions may have accelerated...

the conservation status of major species groups, and measures trends in extinction risk over time. By conducting conservation assessments at regular intervals...

only returning players. In addition, the season brought back the Edge of Extinction twist first introduced in the show's thirty-eighth season, where voted-out...

This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before...

loses his right arm to Sentinel Prime at the film's climax. In Age of Extinction, he is hunted by Harold Attinger, Cemetery Wind, and Lockdown, who is...

farming. This is cited as evidence that humans have unleashed a sixth mass extinction event. Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant...

Africa, and the extinction of all archaic human species. The Late Pleistocene from around 50,000 years ago onwards was marked by the extinction of most large...

somewhat beyond the Oort cloud, to explain a perceived cycle of mass extinctions in the geological record, which seem to occur more often at intervals...

sudden appearance of the (CR) after extinction occurs – and other related phenomena (see "Recovery from extinction" below). These phenomena can be explained...

IUCN estimates that 42,100 species of the ones assessed are at risk for extinction. Expanding to all existing species, a 2019 UN report on biodiversity put...

between 2002 and 2006. The earliest known claims of a looming "blond extinction" date back to 1865. Several outlets propagating the hoax also falsely...

Sebecosuchia, they were the only crocodyliformes known to have survived the K-Pg extinction. Eusuchia was originally defined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1875 as an...

Tulsa, Oklahoma. She won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, a national bestseller and a Wall Street Journal best book...

Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food is a 2019 non-fiction culinary book written by Lenore Newman and published by ECW Press. It discusses...

the equatorial belt. The start of the Oligocene is marked by a notable extinction event called the Grande Coupure; it featured the replacement of European...

observed decrease in animal body size in genera that have survived a major extinction. There are several hypotheses as to why these patterns appear in the fossil...

populations to crash, or may allow predators to drive other prey species to extinction; and removing a plant species may result in the loss of animals that depend...

976 AD until its elevation to a duchy in 1156, and from then until the extinction of the line in 1246, whereafter they were succeeded by the House of Habsburg...

The Paleozoic Era ended with the largest extinction event of the Phanerozoic Eon, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The effects of this catastrophe...

at the end of the Pleistocene, in turn leading to the extinction of T. uranoceles. Its extinction is not thought to be related to human activity. Olson...

to the Late Pleistocene. The extinction of L. apertosulcus aligns with the general pattern of late Pleistocene extinctions in the West Indies, possibly...

as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. The potential role of human hunting in the extinctions has been the subject of much controversy...

threatened with extinction globally on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The remaining two are not considered to be threatened with extinction, one of...

216 species of birds have become extinct since 1500, with increasing extinction rates due to human-caused influences such as habitat loss, the introduction...

the end of the preceding Maastrichtian) is at the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 Ma. The age ended 61.66 Ma, being followed by the Selandian....

distinct, and the date given for the extinction of the peerage is not necessarily the same as that of the extinction of the title. For more on noble titles...

Without Men (also known as Adam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men) is a 2003 book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan...

at Addey and Stanhope School. He is the author of a series of books on extinction and extinct creatures. Andrew Sugden, reviewing Extinct Birds (1987) in...

Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics is a 255-page book published in 2005 by Paul Ormerod. The book observes that failures are common...

years ago. The period began with the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era...

Cenomanian–Turonian extinction, Cenomanian–Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 2), and referred to also as the Bonarelli Event or Level, was an anoxic extinction event...

making of two sequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), which completed the first of the eventual two trilogies of Resident...

The following extinct baronetcies are listed by date of extinction. An alphabetical list is to be found here, or via the category of extinct baronetcies...

on future producing endeavors during an interview about Resident Evil: Extinction: "I definitely have many ideas and different avenues that I want to take...

matching ancient descriptions. Conservation status De-extinction Extinction Holocene extinction Lists of extinct animals Rare species Terminal speaker...

Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction". Science. 305 (5683): 506–509. Bibcode:2004Sci...305..506P. doi:10.1126/science...

(2004), Isolde in Tristan & Isolde (2006), Darcy in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Erika in Underworld (2003) and Underworld: Evolution (2006) and...

Darkness Descends (1986), Leave Scars (1989), Time Does Not Heal (1991) and Extinction Level Event (2025). The band's over-the-top style (extremely fast, heavy...

Doe, and Luguru. The language is one of the endangered languages facing extinction in Tanzania. According to a study, the 5,518 Kami speakers' number does...

(2017). In 2018, he had a leading role in the alien invasion thriller Extinction, and played Josh Sanderson in the film adaptation of Jenny Han's young...

insects. Out of those 8 million species, 1 million are threatened with extinction, including 40 percent of amphibians, almost a third of reef-building corals...

characteristics and environmental variability to forecast population health and extinction risk. Each PVA is individually developed for a target population or species...

regions may have reduced megalodon's primary food source. The shark's extinction coincides with a gigantism trend in baleen whales. Megalodon teeth have...

Transformers film series: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction, in addition to the American version of The Ring and its sequel The Ring...

years. He stood, as an experiment in participatory politics, for the Extinction Club party in the 2001 general election in the Oxford West and Abingdon...

the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT), efilism (an ideology that advocates for extreme promortalism and forced extinction), and antinatalism...

term pseudo-scholarship) such as Near-Term Human Extinction (NTHE), which predicted human extinction by 2026. McPherson's career as a professor began...

the broader global Late Quaternary extinction event. The roles of human and climatic factors in their extinction are debated. There are similarities...

extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species...

Matthew Perry as Clark. In 2019, Clark competed in Survivor: Edge of Extinction and became the thirteenth person voted out of the game. He made the jury...

status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction. This species was described in 1984 by Robert J...

depression and the introduction of unwanted phenotypes which can lead to extinction. Conservation biologists and conservationists have used the term to describe...

of extinction is strongly related to adaptive zones, because different taxa have different probabilities of extinction. In other words, extinction of...

White Sea biota. The drop of diversity has been compared to the mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic. A second drop of diversity occurred at the Ediacaran–Cambrian...

phase, they would later go extinct during the secondary wave of extinction. The extinction of dinocephalians and basal therocephalians, gorgonopsians occupied...

from a single specimen, a male. In an example of conservation-induced extinction, it likely died out when the last survivors of its host species, the Iberian...

likely that Tongoenas was hunted to extinction by ancient humans who had settled there. Tongoenas faced extinction around 850–600 BCE. David W. Steadman;...

Holocene extinction is being caused by technology, and the effects may last for up to five million years. In turn, technology may result in the extinction of...

silver screen Abadie has appeared in blockbusters including Resident Evil: Extinction and Shawn Levy's The Pink Panther, in which he plays opposite Steve Martin...

Enzootic — Ethnic diversity — Ewens sampling formula — Extinct in the Wild — Extinction — Felidae Conservation Fund — Flora and vegetation of Turkey — Forest...

extinct before the first Europeans visited Hawaii in 1778. Due to its early extinction, very little is known about this species. It is only known from a few...

all dinosaurs and many other species at the end of the Mesozoic. The extinction event caused by this impact began the Cenozoic, in which mammals—including...

smallest of all living cetaceans. The species is currently on the brink of extinction, and is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List; the steep...

megafauna during the Quaternary extinction event during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The causes of this extinction have been debated. Given the suddenness...

life on land; the Mesozoic, which spanned the rise, reign, and climactic extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs; and the Cenozoic, which saw the rise of mammals...

So Far, So Good... So What! (1988), Rust in Peace (1990), Countdown to Extinction (1992), and Youthanasia (1994). These albums, along with worldwide tours...

Ordovician–Silurian extinction, during which 60% of marine invertebrates and 25% of families became extinct. Though one of the deadliest mass extinctions in earth's...

Marble Arch in London by the graffiti artist Banksy. It was created during Extinction Rebellion protests in London in 2019 when Marble Arch was a base for the...

transmissometer or transmissiometer is an instrument for measuring the extinction coefficient of the atmosphere and sea water, and for the determination...

population to become extinct. It provides an alternative explanation for extinction, which is due to misadaptation rather than failure to adapt. For example...

species of gastropod that was endemic to Spain. Its primary cause of extinction was habitat destruction. Delicado, D.; Seddon, M.B. (2026). "Islamia ateni"...

status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction. The genus name (Aproteles) – "incomplete at the...

and subsequently cascading collapse of food chains, leading to mass extinctions of the Earth's biosphere that wipe out many of the world's extant species...

alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and was driven to extinction by human exploitation in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern...

Oliver Zhang. In May 2023, CAIS published the statement on AI risk of extinction signed by hundreds of professors of AI, leaders of major AI companies...

including endangered groups for comparison that are nearing extinction, facing an extinction vortex (500 members or less by the 2002 Census). Slavic migration...

experts and industry figures have stated that mitigating the risk of human extinction posed by AGI should be a global priority. Others find the development...

understanding of extinction events, by developing a statistical approach to the study of taxonomic diversification. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs...

date after the Quaternary extinction event. There is no compelling evidence that climatic change was the cause of the extinction, nor any evidence that hybridisation...

of extinction. Anthropogenic extinctions started as humans migrated out of Africa over 60,000 years ago. Increases in global rates of extinction have...

native to North Africa in Algeria and Morocco and Tunisia until their extinction in 1870. The Atlas bear was Africa's only native bear sub-species that...

Media, the band released their third full-length album, The Architect of Extinction, in 2015. The band's first US tour was in the autumn of 2015 on the Devastation...

subfossils. It is unknown what caused the extinction of the little bettong, but based on the timing of its extinction and the decline of similar potoroid species...

ecosystems during the Last Glacial Maximum. Today, the ongoing Holocene extinction is caused primarily by human impact on the environment, and the greatest...

laser extinction, signal attenuation, and secondary emission The third set of optical patternators is based on laser extinction or laser extinction tomography...

Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction". Science. 305 (5683): 506–509. Bibcode:2004Sci...305..506P. doi:10.1126/science...

Retrieved April 19, 2017. Ideas, Adventurious (March 21, 2023). "Heroes of Extinction Cast". Cast. Retrieved March 21, 2023. Lowry, Brian (2023-03-16). "'Shazam...

living bird she commemorates, the embodiment of extinction itself." Many authors writing about extinction have made what one described as a "strange pilgrimage"...

Permian–Triassic extinction event, where over 95% of species went extinct. The series follows the Guadalupian, which ended with the Capitanian mass extinction, during...

from the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the most severe mass extinction event in Earth's history. A second extinction event, the Smithian-Spathian...

- Feb. 2005), Ultimate Secret (#1 - 4, May - Dec. 2005), and Ultimate Extinction (#1 - 5, Mar. - July 2006). They were all written by Warren Ellis. Ultimate...

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), The Limehouse Golem (2016), Extinction (2018), and The Cursed (2021). Crouch is from Epsom. Her brother Oliver...

1999 – Jakob the Liar 2002 – Robin Williams: Live on Broadway 2014 – Extinction Soup 1993 – Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy...

lived a few million years after the Permian-Triassic extinction, the largest known mass extinction event. It was a member of the Proterosuchidae, a group...

classification. Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact—at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries...

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (~66 Ma). Birds and several crocodyliform lineages were the only archosaurs known to have survived the K-Pg extinction, rediversifying...

D'Urville Island failed, it is now considered to be extinct. The cause of its extinction was probably habitat destruction, because after the clearing of forest...

Transformers: Age of Extinction – The Score is a two-part soundtrack album for the 2014 film of the same name. The score was written by Steve Jablonsky...

observed and collected around 1960. The precise cause of this subspecies extinction is not known. Droughts in the late 50's may have weakened the population...

have been numerous major extinction events that destroyed the majority of complex species alive at the time; the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs...

Rupelian Stage (which is also the base of the Oligocene Series) is at the extinction of the foraminiferan genus Hantkenina. An official GSSP for the base of...

and paleontological impact being associated with the Capitanian mass extinction. The term "trap" has been used in geology since 1785–1795 for such rock...

threatened by rats and cats, the Jamaican wood rail was ultimately driven to extinction shortly after the introduction of small Indian mongooses to Jamaica in...

created in 2024 by Colossal Biosciences as part of a proof-of-concept in de-extinction of the woolly mammoth through genetically modifying its closest living...

extinct genus of limulid xiphosuran that lived during the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Guangyuanolimulus shangsiensis fossils are known from South China...

large populations at increased risk of extinction, but smaller populations are naturally more vulnerable to extinction. Environmental stochasticity cannot...

turnover often characterized as the first pulse of the end-Ediacaran extinction, with only 20% of White Sea taxa found in the later Nama assemblage despite...

decline in diversity following the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which saw the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles...

termed the Great American Schism, with significant diversification and extinction occurring as a result of the isolation of the Caribbean from the Pacific...

coefficients) and L⋅g−1⋅cm−1 (sometimes used in solution chemistry). Mass extinction coefficient is an old term for this quantity. The mass attenuation coefficient...

youngest dated specimen. The extinction of P. naumanni forms part of the broader Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions, in which most large animals...

before its extinction was noticed. (Fall, 2005) This small limpet used to live on the blades of Zostera marina, a species of seagrass. The extinction of Lottia...

Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly 40,000 years ago with the immigration of modern humans...

descendant, Rudolph, was elected King of the Romans. Taking advantage of the extinction of the Babenbergs and of his victory over Ottokar II of Bohemia at the...

bear species not considered by the IUCN to be globally threatened with extinction. The American black bear is not closely related to the brown bear or polar...

of small reptiles. Batodon lived in the Maastrichtian, and may have survived the K-Pg extinction. "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2026-03-03....

extinction and which diversified again during the Triassic, before the majority of them disappeared before or during the Triassic–Jurassic extinction...

Visitguam.com. Retrieved 14 January 2018. "Guam Plant Extinction Prevention Program". Guam Plant Extinction Prevention Program. Retrieved 2024-10-29. "Friends...

(born 1965/1966) is an environmental activist known for having co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, the cooperative federation...

Biodiversity loss happens when species disappear completely from Earth (extinction) or when there is a decrease or disappearance of species in a specific...

China. It is thought to possibly be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans. This dolphin is listed as "critically endangered:...

who have unleashed a bio-engineering project that could bring about the extinction of humankind. An international think-tank of scientists discover a way...

Scientists estimate that the current species extinction rate, or the rate of the Holocene extinction, is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the normal...

$4 million to several environmental activist organizations including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. She is the daughter of John Paul Getty Jr...

Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, the TBO delta plain had a major role in the recovery of biodiversity which had reduced significantly during the extinction event...

drums on four of Megadeth's albums: Rust in Peace (1990), Countdown to Extinction (1992), Youthanasia (1994), and Cryptic Writings (1997). Menza was born...

contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 66 mya was part...

Archosauria. Four distinct lineages of bird survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago, giving rise to ostriches and relatives (Palaeognathae)...

last species vanishing during or soon after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. They are often called ammonites...

as part of the end-Pleistocene extinction event along with most other large animals across the Americas. The extinctions followed human arrival in the...

final stages of a major extinction event, the Kellwasser Event, which is the largest component of the Late Devonian mass extinction. The end of the Famennian...

the extinction. Mass extinctions are often followed by adaptive radiations as existing clades expand to occupy the ecospace emptied by the extinction. However...

settled on season three's "Extinction", about a teenager seeking revenge against everyone infected by the meteors. "Extinction" featured a tie-in with a...

Combined with the introduction of rats to the island, this caused the extinction of the bird. The last specimen of the bird was collected in 1911, and...

diversity during the early Paleocene, shortly after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, but declined from the mid Paleocene onwards, likely due to competition...

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with the Late Pleistocene extinctions. Like the Pleistocene megafauna, its large size may have played a role in its extinction, due to larger species having...

or before the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. However, one group, the crocodylomorphs, survived the major extinction. Crocodylomorphs themselves evolved...

around 50,000 years ago was marked by the extinction of most large terrestrial animals outside Africa, an extinction event otherwise unprecedented in the geological...

2021). "Distributions of extinction times from fossil ages and tree topologies: the example of mid-Permian synapsid extinctions". PeerJ. 9 e12577. doi:10...

years ago, toward the end of the most recent ice age, as part of a mass extinction of large North American mammals. The first evidence of Cervalces scotti...

This is a list of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years...

possible size at which a biological population can exist without facing extinction from natural disasters or demographic, environmental, or genetic stochasticity...

estimate the probability that future AI advancements could lead to human extinction or similarly severe and permanent disempowerment within the next 100 years...

(2015), Ant-Man (2015) and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Extinction (2018). Peña had the title role in Cesar Chavez (2014), played DEA agent...

Records. It is stylistically similar to their previous album, Countdown to Extinction (1992). The title is a play on words, implying that society is euthanizing...

on the current situation, specifically the impact of climate on mass extinctions and biotic recovery and current global warming. Studying paleoclimatology...

Period. The Early Jurassic starts immediately after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, 201.3 Ma (million years ago), and ends at the start of the Middle...

have gone extinct due to the arrival of Homo erectus, due to staggered extinctions on islands coinciding with the arrival of H. erectus in these regions...

7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction. Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon...

following the extinction procedure, such conditioned responses generally do not return to full strength. Moreover, with repeated recovery/extinction cycles,...

paleontologist whose work has focused on global catastrophes and mass extinctions. She has been a professor of geosciences at Princeton University since...

were one of the first bird species that Americans tried to save from extinction. As early as 1791, a bill "for the preservation of heath-hen and other...

of the morphology of Patriofelis ulta, may have contributed to their extinction. Its robust build could have restricted its mobility, making it difficult...

extinct Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis) on its spring migration and the extinction of the locust has been speculated as being a factor in the decline of...

disruption, alternatively the Middle Miocene extinction or Middle Miocene extinction peak, refers to a wave of extinctions of terrestrial and aquatic life forms...

to the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in South Africa. It is threatened with extinction. Woodia verruculosa is found in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, from Howick...

as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of presumed extinction, but is not actually a descendant of the original taxon, instead having...

declines are considered part of the prehistoric phase of the Holocene extinction. Since the second half of the 20th century, a range of protected areas...

asteroid or comet which caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other animals...

potentially have caused the extinction. When chytridiomycosis was eventually identified as a major cause of amphibian extinctions throughout the world, a...

released as a single from the band's fifth studio album, Countdown to Extinction (1992). The lyrics explore the hypothetical situation where an average...

subspecies of European polecat that was endemic to Scotland until its extinction in the early 20th century. It was one of two subspecies of polecat in...

franchise, voicing Lockdown in the fourth installment, Transformers: Age of Extinction. In 2014 the film broke worldwide records earning over $1.08 billion in...

the period immediately after the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the most severe mass extinction known in Earth history. The Daye Formation hosts the...

the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, along with every other Australian mammal over 100 kg (220 lb). The extinction was possibly caused by extreme...

role in the species' extinction, and mosquito-borne diseases and deforestation probably were the major reasons for its extinction (very similar to the...

conservation organisations and governments continue to work to prevent their extinction. "Rail" is the anglicized respelling of the French râle, from Old French...

was largely dominated by dinosaurs up until their extinction during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. After this period, small mammalian species...

or one that repopulates vacant niches after a natural disaster, mass extinction or any other catastrophic event that wipes out most life of the prior...

late 2012. The band spent the majority of 2014 writing The Anthropocene Extinction. Alongside the announcement of the album title in May 2015, the band released...

In Christianity, annihilationism (also known as extinctionism or destructionism) is the belief that after the Last Judgment, all damned humans and fallen...

it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains in the coldest, densest...

insects, and rodents. Cyperus eglobosus is not considered to be at risk of extinction. However, it is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. The species...

the Buddhist tradition, nirvana has commonly been interpreted as the extinction of the "three poisons" of greed (raga), aversion (dvesha) and ignorance...

fossil fuels projects. He is also known for being a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and the Save Old Growth campaign that demanded an end to old...

Troy, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Tamara, Resident Evil: Extinction, Rambo, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Atlas Shrugged. Marsden...

to an extinction event. The timing of the Manicouagan impact coincides with the Adamanian-Revueltian turnover, a possibly localized extinction event where...

involve mice or rats as subjects. This procedure can be used to measure extinction and reinstatement of the conditioned stimulus. Certain drugs are used...

achieved" by 2020. This ongoing global extinction is also called the holocene extinction or sixth mass extinction. In the wilderness, the problem of animal...

Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME), the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, and the End-Permian extinction event, Shindell...

dynamical theory corrects for refraction, shape and width of the peaks, extinction and interference effects. Graphical representations are described in dispersion...

He is best known for partnering with George Church on the idea for de-extinction and founding a venture capital-backed startup known as Colossal to support...

freshwater fish extinction rates in North America are 877 times higher than background extinction rates (1 in 3,000,000 years). Projected extinction rates for...

about the morphology of this subspecies, including its body size, as its extinction occurred in a time before the onset of many modern scientific approaches...

mass extinctions. The prehistoric Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, is believed to be the cause not only of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event...

Landau described the mood of the album as being "filled with a 'tinge of extinction.'" In 2021, a "50th Anniversary" edition of the album was released containing...

period; the exact time of extinction and the cause are unknown. Deforestation could have been a contributing factor to its extinction. Hume, Julian P. (Julian...

solo album via Bandcamp and other digital music retailers, titled Tender Extinction. Jansen has continued to work on new compositions, some of which he has...

as it marks a catastrophic global extinction event. Numerous theories have been proposed as to why this extinction event happened including an asteroid...

may increase through reinforcement or decrease through punishment or extinction. Operant conditioning originated with Edward Thorndike, whose law of effect...

England. Brassier is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction and the translator of Alain Badiou's Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism...

record of the subspecies was in 1912, which is generally recorded as its extinction date, although scattered individuals may have survived longer on the island...

extinct because of wetland degradation. Another likely cause of their extinction would be humans overhunting their population. Hoch, Ella (1979). "Reflections...

(2012). "Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern...

catastrophism, is the idea that global natural catastrophes on Earth, such as extinction events, happen at regular intervals because of the periodic motion of...

These extinctions have happened continuously throughout the history of life, although the rate of extinction spikes in occasional mass extinction events...

fed on while in its larval stages is believed to be one reason for the extinction of the Xerces blue. The plant could not survive in the disturbed soils...

the species' range likely encompassed much of northern Hispaniola. The extinction of Leiocephalus anonymous is attributed to environmental disturbances...

nature. Extinction is a model that demonstrates how learned behaviors decrease through the absence of anticipated reinforcement. Extinction is not only...

the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event approximately 66 million years ago, which led to the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many...

nature conservation. Humans have hunted many apex predators close to extinction, but in some parts of the world, these predators are now returning. They...

awareness. The overarching goal of the CPC’s network is to prevent the extinction of rare plant species. The CPC collaborates with the United States Fish...

Dark Angel's last studio album for 34 years until their 2025 comeback Extinction Level Event. Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire said the album was "arguably...

African land snail, Lissachatina fulica. This snail is responsible for the extinction of an estimated eight native snail species in Hawaii. This has caused...

dwarf hippos per year would have put the species at risk of extinction, with extinction becoming nearly certain with over 1000 individuals harvested...

experiments have confirmed the existence of the ratchet and the consequent extinction of populations in many organisms (under intense drift and when recombinations...

Santonian's top (the base of the Campanian Stage) is informally marked by the extinction of the crinoid Marsupites testudinarius. A GSSP for the top of the Santonian...

extensive and intensive searches, with rediscovery not reasonably expected). Extinction is here considered a global (range-wide) phenomenon, while extirpation...

Retrieved 2 July 2019. - Lowry, Brian (28 November 2014). "TV Review: 'Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink'". Variety. Retrieved 2 July 2019. Laura Helft, Emily...

end-Pleistocene extinction event around 12,000 years ago, simultaneously with the majority of other large animals in the Americas. Their extinction has been...

the End-Botomian extinction event during the Middle Cambrian. According to data on extinction intensity (see below), both extinction events slashed approximately...

Campanian Stage is defined as a place in the stratigraphic column where the extinction of crinoid species Marsupites testudinarius is located. A GSSP was ratified...

the extinctions. All of the factors that have played a role in past extinctions are still present and active today. As a result, the extinction event...

of Alsatites liasicus zone of Psiloceras planorbis Triassic-Jurassic extinction event "International Chronostratigraphic Chart" (PDF). International Commission...

region of morphospace, and after an initial burst of diversification (or extinction) changes little for the rest of its existence. The Avalon assemblage is...

event, a major extinction event that preceded Romer's gap, one on par with that which killed the dinosaurs. In this end-Devonian extinction, most marine...

on the Billboard 200. They then signed with Century Media to release Extinction(s) in 2018. Their most recent album, The Wretched; the Ruinous, was released...

extinct birds formed their own family, representing the only complete extinction of an entire avian family in modern times, when the disputed family Turnagridae...

and hybridization with the related Amargosa River pupfish led to its extinction around 1979. The Tecopa pupfish is member of the genus Cyprinodon of the...

will result in large amounts of water spilling out, representing the extinction and speciation of the organisms present. An example Eldredge uses is the...

Lake Techirghiol in Romania, to which the species was endemic before its extinction through introgressive hybridization with Gasterosteus aculeatus in the...

absorption properties of the most important chromophores in tissue. The molar extinction coefficient ( ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon \,} ) is another parameter...

Permian–Triassic extinction event; the conodonts became extinct at the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, and the...

individuals being killed per year put the species at risk of extinction, with extinction becoming essentially inevitable at over 350 hunted per year (realistically...

extinct as part of the end-Pleistocene extinction event, along with most large mammals across the Americas. The extinctions followed the arrival of humans to...

these rats as a delicacy, which may have been a factor towards their extinction. C. musseri was probably endangered by 1 AD and it was extinct by 1000...

what led to its extinction, and the role of conservation in preventing the extinction of critically endangered species. The extinction of the elephant...

Having been the only mammal endemic to the reef, its extinction was described as the first extinction of a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change...

eco-acoustic composer, best known for his multidisciplinary project Fragments of Extinction, patented periphonic device, the Eco-Acoustic Theatre, and award-winning...

a story milestone for the series, along with "The Sixth Extinction" and "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati," and introduced new aspects to the series'...

Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the...

the fossil record, usually immediately (in a geological sense) after an extinction event. The spikes are believed to represent a large, temporary increase...

evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283 (1833)...

studies placed Olson's Extinction just after the Kungurian, but more recent studies only indicate that this possible extinction event is located around...

(such as the triggering of a small ice age) and threaten species with extinction. The Oruanui eruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (about 25,600 years...

20162235. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2235. PMC 5247498. PMID 28077774. Turtle Extinctions Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Thomson, S., Georgalis, G., Karl, H.-V...

Nocturne performed "Shallow" from the album Guide to Extinction. Brinn, Jeff. "Nocturne: Guide To Extinction". Schwegweb. Retrieved December 13, 2015. "NOCTURNE...

philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and...

although the end of the period was marked by the Ordovician–Silurian extinction events. Invertebrates, namely molluscs and arthropods, dominated the oceans...

reason for the macaw's extinction was overhunting. The macaw is extinct, and it is conjectured to have been hunted to extinction in the early 19th century...

species. The ultimate goal of conservation at this level is to prevent the extinction of species. However, species conservation has the broader aim of maintaining...

screenwriter, film producer, and director best known for his work on Extinction (2018), Moonfall (2022), and Tarot (2024). In March 2012, Cohen directed...

regions may disrupt ecosystems and has, in some cases, contributed to extinction of indigenous species. The removal of feral species is a major focus of...

in 1993. "Angry Again", recorded during the sessions for Countdown to Extinction, appeared on the soundtrack to Last Action Hero and received a nomination...

Islands of Mallorca and Menorca in the western Mediterranean until its extinction around 4,300 years ago. The fossil record of Myotragus on the Balearic...

This was associated with rapid ocean acidification The Permian–Triassic Extinction Event, in which up to 95% of all species became extinct, has been hypothesized...

The field of bullets hypothesis describes a model in which extinction is non-selective and occurs randomly. The metaphor of the field of bullets suggest...

as the European Dentaneosuchus, possibly due to their isolation. The extinction of Barinasuchus and other parts of this reptile-heavy guild may have been...

discovering the Alcohol Deprivation Effect (ADE) and targeted pharmacological extinction, otherwise known as the Sinclair Method, as a medication treatment for...

indicator. At wavelength (378 - 382) nm, extinction coefficient > 8000 and at wavelength (298 - 302) nm, the extinction coefficient > 12000. Thymol blue undergoes...

eastern Bolivia, and northern Paraguay. These species are in the risk of extinction in the wild. The species of the genus Discocactus are depressed spherical...

Telegraph that Hohn had donated £50,000 to environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, with a further £150,000 donated by the Children's Investment...

victim to extinction much more easily. For example, if a species of fish were to go extinct, any specialist parasites would also face extinction. On the...

establishing a chronology for Late Quaternary mammal extinctions in the West Indies. In American megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene (pp. 169–193)...

but this was replaced by "Foreclosure of a Dream" from Countdown to Extinction instead, resulting in that track being the exception on the otherwise...

increased activation of the vmPFC after extinction training. The specific role played by the vmPFC concerning extinction is not well understood, but it is believed...

species. Removing even one component from the food chain could result in extinction or significant decreases in a species' probability of surviving. Many...

islands. It is thought that a number of factors contributed to their extinction, the most notable being overhunting. Dinornis novaezealandiae was a ratite...

animated film Monster House. She appeared in the 2007 film Resident Evil: Extinction as K-Mart, a girl found in the ruins of a K-Mart by Claire Redfield's...

below, along with their typical range of size (for the general dates of extinction, see the link to each). Many species mentioned might not actually be the...

alive in 1897 by researcher Henry Kaeding. Though the reason for its extinction is not clear, introduced species likely led to the bird's decline. Goats...

the K-T extinction, which resulted in the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. It portrays the Alvarez hypothesis as the cause of extinction. The documentary...

Hollywood Reporter, where Frank Scheck in his review of the feature film Extinction commented "Far better is child actress McColgan, delivering a well-rounded...

authors Stork and Lyal (1993) and was originally used to explain the extinction of parasitic insects following the loss of their specific hosts. The term...

financial and technology sectors. He previously worked as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. Read's application of the precautionary principle in climate...

end Pleistocene-extinction event, approximately 12–11,000 years ago, along with most other large mammals in the Americas. The extinctions followed the arrival...

June 2019). "Extinction Rebellion protester convicted of public order offence". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 July 2019. "UPDATE: Extinction Rebellion protests"...

the early years of the 20th century, the remaining bison were hunted to extinction in the wild, with domestic bison later reintroduced into the wild. By...

nests. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction. In Britain, the word "kingfisher" normally refers to the common kingfisher...

descendants, may be driven to extinction (as were many orders of terrestrial vertebrates in the Permian–Triassic extinction event) because of these environments...

Endling (2025 novel), novel by Maria Reva Endlings (TV series) Endling: Extinction is Forever, a video game Endling, a book series by Katherine Applegate...

Megadeth. It is the fourth single from the band's album Countdown to Extinction. At 3 minutes and 14 seconds, it is the shortest song on the album. The...

extinct around 1445, following the arrival of the Māori, who hunted moa to extinction, introduced the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans), and destroyed large tracts...

Macfadyen. In 2007, Jovovich reprised her role as Alice in Resident Evil: Extinction, the third of the Resident Evil series. The film grossed an estimated...

Roopnarine, Peter D. (September 2001). "A history of diversification, extinction, and invasion in tropical America as derived from species-level phylogenies...

other waterfalls on the escarpment of the Udzungwa Mountains. Prior to extinction, there was a population of around 17,000 individuals and fluctuating naturally...

species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised...