How are scientists able to say that a random species is extinct? Did they have to look everywhere?
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They take a guess and then say they were wrong when they find one. Check out the coelacanth as an example. Extinct technically doesn’t mean “we guarantee it’s gone”. It just means “we assume it’s gone”.
For large endangered animals that have been carefully tracked for a long time, it’s easier to declare them extinct with strong confidence (species of rhino, for instance).
For smaller, more cryptic species it’s really just a matter of not being able to find any after several years of looking. But of course there’s some chance that it’s not actually extinct.
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It’s more of a “eehhhh, good enough” kind of situation.
If no one has seen any of them for a good while, even when looking where they usually live, we assume they’re gone.
Sometimes we’re wrong, it happens.
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