Yet, largely on the basis of named crop varieties that are no longer extant, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that 75% of crop biodiversity has been lost from the world's fields.
Lucy belonging to the extinct species Australopithecus afarensis was discovered in northern Ethiopia in 1974, with about 40 % of her skeletal bones extant.
An incident which happened not very long after that airy notion of getting aid from his uncle had been excluded, was a strong sign of the effect that might have followed any extant opportunity of gambling.
Yes, extant crocodiles are their closest living cousins, but there's a lot of extinct diversity in there, a lot going on, and phylogenetics is what helped us untangle all of those complex relationships.
In Colonel Pyncheon's funeral sermon, which was printed, and is still extant, the Rev. Mr. Higginson enumerates, among the many felicities of his distinguished parishioner's earthly career, the happy seasonableness of his death.
None other than Mitch McConnell, who has said he's not running for reelection two years from now, and apparently is the sole representative of the pre-Trump Republican Party, now extant.
A lot of the extant Greek and Latin writing that we have about Arabia is due to events that took place on this Roman-Persian frontier, often military events.
Aside from being some of the oldest extant species on Earth, these invertebrates have a have an odd way of maintaining rigidity in their bodies--glass.