1.   About a hundred species are becoming extinct every day.

2.   At school they had once heard of some animal which had become extinct because of its huge flat feet.

3.   Eventually the rarer genes will disappear and the genetic types leaving fewer offspring will become extinct.

4.   For these reasons, if for no others, quangos seem unlikely to become extinct.

5.   If nothing is done to save the whales now, the species will soon become extinct.

6.   Large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct.

7.   Many birds, small mammals and fish have become extinct or are seriously threatened.

8.   Nearly half of these species appear nowhere else on the planet and would become extinct unless the Andes hot spot was saved.

9.   Pandas could become extinct in the wild.

10.   Should governments be free to ban imports of things they fear will become extinct?