1.   Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.

2.   Dinner, in the entrance hall, was dominated by three more extinct creatures.

3.   Embedded in the canyons are fossils of extinct creatures like giant camels, mastodons, short-faced bears and sabertooth cats.

4.   In recent months, two shows about extinct creatures on the Discovery Channel have drawn the largest audiences ever for cable programs other than sports or news.

5.   Officials readily concede nobody knows what the extinct creatures looked like, much less what color they were or what they sounded like.

6.   The Family Tree of Life lets the reader meander through exhibits of the domains of life, from microscopic bacteria to extinct creatures like the quagga.

7.   Today his collection includes eggs from common hummingbirds to extinct winged creatures that would make a T. rex flinch.

8.   Those without holes, anapsids, include only turtles and some extinct creatures.

9.   French geneticists on Friday dismissed as meaningless claims by Australian scientists that they had cleared a major hurdle for cloning an extinct creature.