how do we determine a species has gone extinct? You’re telling me you looked EVERYWHERE?
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Sometimes absence of evidence really is evidence of absence. Coelacanth were thought to be extinct for the entire history of biological study, but nobody had a problem dealing with it when we find out that was a mistaken determination.
All science is *provisional* truth. That doesn’t mean there’s no way to determine that a species has become extinct.
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