EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A species of animal or plant that is extinct no longer has any living members, either in the world or in a particular place. It is 250 years since the wolf became extinct in Britain.

Detailed explanation-2: -extinct Add to list Share. Something that no longer exists and has no living representative is extinct.

Detailed explanation-3: -Earth is home to lots of wonderful wildlife, but sadly, some species that once called our planet home today no longer exist. These are known as extinct animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -To become extinct is to be gone forever. Even before the arrival of humans on Earth, species became extinct quite naturally. Natural extinction happens when a species declines in numbers gradually but steadily at the end of its evolutionary period on Earth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Extinct refers to species no longer in existence, having no living representatives – gone everywhere. Things like the brontosaurus, which no longer occurred as of 10’s of millions years ago, the wooly mammoth 10-thousand years ago, or the passenger pigeon only 10 decades ago. Extant describes species that DO exist.