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Extinct means that there are no longer alive and completely dead, the whole species is dead and are no longer on earth alive. But threatened means that they are on the edge of being completely dead.

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Threatened means that the species is likely to become extinct. Extinct means that all of the species no longer are around (they are all dead).

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