How are scientists able to say that a random species is extinct? Did they have to look everywhere?
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It’s impossible to prove a negative. So we assume it’s true until proven otherwise. That is, we assume a species is extinct so long as we have no proof otherwise.
So if we found a species, but all the ones we were tracking died, we will assume it’s extinct until we find a new one.
Like all of science, we have to assume the universe is how we perceive it until proven otherwise.
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