Extinct Quotes
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Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.
Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band -
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
Larry Niven
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Douglas Jerrold -
Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.
Gaylord Nelson -
It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
Brett Hull -
If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde -
Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Until recently, when both of them went extinct, there were two species of frogs, known as gastric-brooding frogs, that carried their eggs in their stomachs and gave birth to little froglets through their mouths.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.
Neil Shubin -
Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.
Eric Thomas -
I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.
Ethel M. Dell