Sentences with phrase «extinct over the millennia»

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.

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The team will use these bits of evidence to build a picture of how the island changed over millennia and, potentially, determine when the mammoths went extinct.

For over a half - century, all that remained of the Imperial Woodpecker's millennia of evolution on planet Earth were taxidermied museum specimens and drawings in ornithological volumes — but thanks to the discovery of a rare 16 - mm film, the extinct bird flies again.