How are scientists able to say that a random species is extinct? Did they have to look everywhere?
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All science is always “to the best of our knowledge”.
A species can be declared extinct when it isn’t found anywhere for a long enough time that, to the best of our knowledge, it appears to have died off entirely.
Sometimes we’re wrong and we find that species again later! But science is always able to be proven wrong; that’s how we learn.
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