History Main / NotSoExtinct

* The ''VideoGame/DragonAge'' series takes its name from the fact that dragons were believed to be extinct for the last several centuries (not counting the Archdemons, who take the form of dragons). They reappeared at the start of the current age.

* ''{{Supernatural}}'': The attack pattern of the MonsterOfTheWeek points to a dragon, but dragons are extinct...except this one.

* In the {{Conan}} story "The Devil In Iron", Conan ventures into a mysterious city on an island that'd previously held only ruins. His suspicion that something has brought the long-dead settlement back to life is supported when he finds the intact pelt of a golden leopard in a bedchamber, and recognizes it as an animal that went extinct a thousand years ago. [[spoiler: He later fights a giant snake, also of a species known to be extinct.]]

* A variant is used in the {{Conan}} story "The Devil In Iron", when Conan ventures into a mysterious city on an island that'd previously held only ruins. His suspicion that something has brought the long-dead settlement back to life is supported when he finds the intact pelt of a golden leopard in a bedchamber, and recognizes it as an animal that went extinct a thousand years ago.

* Played with in the {{Conan}} story "The Devil In Iron", when Conan ventures into a mysterious city on an island that'd previously held only ruins. His suspicion that something has brought the long-dead settlement back to life is supported when he finds the intact pelt of a golden leopard in a bedchamber, and recognizes it as an animal that went extinct a thousand years ago.

* Played with in the {{Conan}} story "The Devil In Iron", when Conan ventures into a mysterious city arisen from ancient ruins. His suspicion that something has brought the long-dead city back to life is supported when he finds the perfectly-intact pelt of a golden leopard in a bedchamber, and recognizes it as an animal that went extinct a thousand years ago.

* ''{{Animorphs}}'' does this with the Venber in "The Extreme". Though they're actually hybrids of Venber and humans brought back by the Yeerks.

* In ''{{Touhou}}'', it's widely believed that there are no oni in Gensokyo despite otherwise being a FantasyKitchenSink. And then of course they immediately meet one. In fact, it's not even mentioned ''until'' they meet her and it comes up in their conversation with her as ArbitrarySkepticism.

* In ''The Scar'', the discovery that Bas-Lag's ancient race of anophelii (mosquito-folk) aren't extinct comes as a shock to many in Armada. Soon enough, an Armadan diplomatic party goes to visit them, and brings one back with them.

* In ''TheScar'', the discovery that the race of anophelii (mosquito-folk) aren't extinct comes as a shock to many in Armada. Soon enough, an Armadan diplomatic party goes to visit them, and brings one back with them.

* In ''[[Bas-LagCycle The Scar]]'', the discovery that the race of anophelii (mosquito-folk) aren't extinct comes as a shock to many in Armada. Soon enough, an Armadan diplomatic party goes to visit them, and brings one back with them.

* In ''[[BasLagCycle The Scar]]'', the discovery that the race of anophelii (mosquito-folk) aren't extinct comes as a shock to many in Armada. Soon enough, an Armadan diplomatic party goes to visit them, and brings one back with them.

"Dinosaurs are extinct, so you never can tell where you'll find them."
->Hadji in "The Sea Haunt", ''JonnyQuest''

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' did this at one point. Dilbert ran a computer model of the K-T extinction that indicated it wasn't possible for all the dinosaurs to be dead. Turned out there were two of them hiding in his house. (Hence the minor recurring character Bob the Dinosaur.)

* On the {{Discworld}} a lot of standard fantasy creatures are extinct, though that's often synonymous with "trapped in a parallel dimension."

* ''{{literature/Animorphs}}'' does this with the Venber in "The Extreme". Though they're actually hybrids of Venber and humans brought back by the Yeerks.

* {{literature/Animorphs}} does this with the Venber in "The Extreme". Though they're actually hybrids of Venber and humans.

"Dinosaurs are extinct, so you never know where you'll find them."

"Dinosaurs are extinct, so you never know where you'll find them"

- Hadji in "The Sea Haunt", ''JonnyQuest''