Extinct

Extinct means that a type of animal or plant no longer exists anywhere on Earth. For example, dinosaurs are extinct because there are no living dinosaurs today.

Examples

• Dinosaurs are extinct, which means they no longer roam the Earth like they did millions of years ago.
• In science class, we learned that the woolly mammoth is an extinct animal that lived during the Ice Age.
• The dodo bird is a famous example of an extinct species because it disappeared due to hunting and habitat loss.

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