They survived through the K – T boundary and are currently the most successful and diverse group of living reptiles with more than 6, 000 extant species.

The only bird group known for certain to have survived the K – T boundary is the Neornithines ( though one Paleogene species, Qinornis paleocenica, may represent a surviving non-neornithine bird ).

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

The only group with significant knowledge of the Ancients are isolated robots and other artificial intelligences that survived the war — though these machines tend to be damaged, in ill-repair, or hostile to organic beings.

Hence, those with less pigmented skin survived and had children at higher rates because their skin allowed more UV light for the production of vitamin D. Thus, the skin of those in the group that left the African continent and went far north gradually developed adaptations for relatively greater translucence compared to equatorial hues.

While a group with the same task survived the winter on Spitsbergen, all seven on Jan Mayen died of scurvy or trichinosis ( from eating raw polar bear meat ) combined with the harsh conditions.

Only one significant group of arrows, from the Mary Rose, has survived.

A nonparty dictator without a large body of supporters, Morínigo survived politically-despite the numerous plots against him-because of his astute handling of an influential group of young military officers who held key positions of power.

His candidacy was nearly defeated when a group of ex-servicemen attacked him in the press for not having enlisted, but he survived this crisis.

In February 2009, Sigifredo López, the only deputy who survived and was later released by FARC, accused the group of killing the 11 captives and denied that any military rescue attempt had taken place.

He survived after previously being punished for insubordination and was held in chains nearby but separated from the rest of the group.

Bastions of largely unaltered Aboriginal societies survived, particularly in Northern and Western Australia into the 20th century, until finally, a group of Pintupi people of the Gibson Desert became the last people to be contacted by outsider ways in 1984.

According to Altena, a thousand years ago, a group of people who had survived a bloody war that cost numerous lives, formed a group called Les Soldats to protect the weak and take revenge on the world.

The western ( Sarmatian ) group of Scythian survived as the language of the Alans and eventually gave rise to the modern Ossetic language.

Many groups of synapsids such as anomodontians and therocephalians that once comprised the dominant terrestrial fauna of the Permian also became extinct during this time, but during the Triassic, one group ( Cynodontia ) gave rise to the descendant taxon Mammalia, which survived through the Mesozoic to later diversify during the Cenozoic.

With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives, the group barely survived and were even arrested for shoplifting food ( Zappa bailed them out ).

One day a helicopter pilot representative of Beadley's faction lands at the farm and reports that the group has established a successful colony on the Isle of Wight, and that Coker survived to join them.

The earliest echinoid fossils date to the upper part of the Ordovician period ( circa 450 MYA ), and the taxon has survived to the present as a successful and diverse group of organisms.

However, despite these variations, most of the Qumran fragments can be classified as being closer to the Masoretic text than to any other text group that has survived.

The ammonoids as a group continued through several major extinction events, although it appears that often only a few species survived.

The Wiradjuri people () or Wirraayjuurray people () are a group of indigenous people of Australian Aborigines that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter – fisher – gatherers in family groups or clans scattered throughout central New South Wales.

The colony was the first attempt at any permanent European settlement in the present-day continental United States, but the group survived only a short time.

Two members of the group survived the attack and later testified against those responsible.

In October 2001, Hamid Karzai and his group of fighters survived a friendly fire missile attack by U. S. Air Force pilots in southern Afghanistan.

After Alcippe's death, a group attack followed.

In February 1994, watchdog group Morality in Media claimed that the death of 8-month-old Natalia Rivera, struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel by 18-year-old Calvin J.

* Death Penalty Focus: American group dedicated to abolishing the death penalty

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

In the early days after the death of John Thomas the group could have moved in a number of directions.

Following his death in 1879 his most active supporter David Handley of Maldon returned to the main grouping, and the group gradually died out.

* it is abundantly evident that HIV causes disease and death in hemophiliacs, a group generally lacking Duesberg's proposed risk factors.

Human sacrifices were not only made in time of war, pestilence, calamity, and on the death of kings and chiefs, they were also made regularly in the Annual Customs, believed to supply deceased kings with a fresh group of servants.

In the first half of the film, Scott is more of a joker and does not take anything seriously, but after Shelly's death, he starts to comprehend the evil that the group is up against.

During breakfast at dawn, Granger ( leader of the group of wandering intellectuals ) discusses the legendary phoenix and its endless cycle of long life, death in flames, and rebirth, adding that the phoenix must have some relation to mankind, which constantly repeats its mistakes, but that man has something the phoenix doesn't.

This exposé of organized crime is set in New York's " Little Italy " during the late 19th century, and focuses on the Black Hand, a group which extorts money upon threat of death.

The most widely acknowledged precursors of the grindcore sound are Siege, a hardcore punk group, and Repulsion, an early death metal outfit.

Nasum, who emerged from the Swedish death metal scene, became a popular group, addressing political topics from a personal perspective.

After Rapp's death in 1847, a number of members left the group because of disappointment and disillusionment over the fact that his prophecies regarding the return of Jesus Christ in his lifetime were not fulfilled.

His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.

The team was donated at his death to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and Affiliated Trusts with operating decisions of the team decided by a five member group chaired by Wal-Mart executive David Glass.

William WitheringIf William Small's arrival in 1765 had been the catalyst to the development of the Lunar Circle as a cohesive group, his death – probably from malaria – in 1775 was to mark another change in its structure.

Ham remained musically active and played sax with the Melbourne-based group The Nudist Funk Orchestra until his death in April 2012.

A group of students had been planning to assassinate Alexander III on the sixth anniversary of his father's death at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

Since the death of Vernon Green, in 2000, the group has been " reconstituted " by several musicians and singers who backed up, and / or recorded with Green prior to his death.

The group sentences King Noah to death by fire.

* 1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group ; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.

* 1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.

The Berlin Movement 2 June, a militant-Anarchist group, later took its name to honour the date of Ohnesorg's death.