Playing With / Not So Extinct

Basic Trope: A species originally thought to be extinct turns out to not be extinct after all.

• Straight: Bob and Alice encounter a pack of dodos, which they thought were extinct.
• Exaggerated: All supposedly extinct animals are not merely present but thriving somewhere.
• Downplayed:
  • Bob and Alice find some skeletons of dodos that go back several years after their supposed extinction.
  • There are still people who claim to have seen dodos, but without solid evidence.
  • Bob and Alice encounter a lone dodo which is the Last of Its Kind.
• Justified:
  • A Chaotic Good philanthropist captures a large amount of animals in a heavily hunted, endangered species to start a breeding program, and announces that the species finally went extinct so no one will try to locate them.
  • Truth in Television: Many species that were believed extinct turned out to be not.
• Inverted: A species goes extinct, but it takes a long time for people to realize this.
• Subverted: It turns out that Alice and Bob had traveled back in time.
• Double Subverted: ...but when they return to our time, there are still dodos.
• Parodied: ???
• Zig-Zagged:
  • possibly because of their time shenanigans changing some key event(s).
  • Bob and Alice encounter what they think is a dodo, but is actually just an unusually large pigeon... which is strange because that particular species of pigeon had become extinct.
• Averted: Extinction is permanent and there are no false alarms.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "A dodo? I thought those were extinct!"
• Implied: In a zoo, you can see an area dedicated to the dodos.
• Invoked: Somebody gets accidentally transformed into a dodo.
• Exploited: Discovering that dodos aren't extinct, Alice and Bob capture them and use them for research, labour, food, entertainment, and anything else that comes to mind.
• Defied:
  • Charlie makes it his mission to drive dodos to extinction, even destroying their eggs.
  • As soon as Adam claims there are still living dodos, Betty corrects him.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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