\"Alan this form of species has been extinct since the Cretaceous period.\"

Will mankind be extinct

ranging from predicting genetic diseases to studying extinct members of the human family, like Neanderthals, and extinct animals like mammoths.

allow us to study extinct species and help doctors to treat diseases like cancer with medicine better personalised for everyone's unique genetic makeup.

And this is what Millennials do because I can look at this audience tonight and tell you all your names are extinct, OK?

are extinct, OK.

They're an extinct group of flying reptiles that are more closely related to dinosaurs

years ago, and become extinct about the same time that avian dinosaurs did, about 65 million

there will be even more species that could become extinct.

Well, they are extinct animals.

Exactly. And "mammoth" is also related to another very big and extinct animal, that also looks like a hairy elephant, "a mastodon."

Parents will use that as an opportunity to talk to their children about how it's important to try and keep species from going extinct.

about how it's important to try and keep species from going extinct.

In fact, although we're the only species on Earth today that's so strongly handed, there's a lot of evidence that our extinct hominin relatives - that is, the members of our lineage after the split with chimpanzees - were mostly right-handed, too. 

today that's so strongly handed, there's a lot of  evidence that our extinct hominin relatives - that  

extinct by tomorrow morning.