And, yes, the coral reefs might become extinct, and people from the Seychelles might go hungry.
But as sure as rampaging dinosaurs have become extinct, the days of outsized-living CEOs are over.
Hair experts believe that haircuts associated with elimination from major sporting tournaments quickly become extinct.
"Many people thought that this (primitive) species had become extinct way before 38, 000 years ago, " said Professor Poinar.
Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.
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We need to get the infrastructure in place before more illegal logging and poaching takes place, and more species become extinct.
Lack of sediment has meant that local fish species have become extinct and the Grand Canyon's beaches have been severely eroded.
In the past three centuries, for example, languages have become extinct or vanished at an increasingly alarming rate, especially in America and Australia.
In 2007, Chinese officials announced that over one-third of the fish species native to the Yellow River had become extinct due to damming or pollution.
Many industry analysts agree many more papers will soon become extinct.
Although their higher rate of reproduction favours them at first, they easily become extinct when faced with a hazard to which all their members are genetically susceptible.
In Britain, where better records have been kept, more than half the native bumblebee species either have become extinct or are facing extinction in the next few decades.
Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy director of the International Union for Conservation of Nature species programme, disagrees with the review's conclusion that "species are more likely to be described than become extinct".
After waiting six months, they found that in the disturbed habitats nearly all the bug populations had declined compared with the undisturbed moss, and 40% of the species had become extinct.
If you do not change, you will become extinct.
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Ms Rosin, an editor at Atlantic, whose book grew out of an article she wrote for the magazine in 2010, acknowledges that men are not about to become extinct any time soon.
The threat drew an angry response from the South's defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok, who said that the North would become "extinct from the Earth by the will of mankind" if it took such an action.
The muni bond insurance market has decreased 98% since 2007 and the old AAA guaranteed muni bond has become a virtually extinct species.
"Good news has become a near-extinct species, " said Bruno Giussani, European director of TED at the opening of the conference.
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No judicial decision contradicts the scholarly view that a non-dispositive bilateral treaty of an extinct State does not automatically become a treaty of its successor or successors.
After that, 88 other Caribou locations will become Peet's as Caribou becomes extinct or critically endangered in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois, eastern Wisconsin and Washington.
True door-to-door field sales is almost extinct, and has of necessity become a hybrid by our definition.
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It was finally concluded that the lake's lower levels had become saturated by carbon dioxide gas (CO2) due to gaseous springs which bubbled up from the extinct volcano beneath.
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