Consequently, a majority of scientists now accept the impact scenario as the most likely cause for the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event which occurred 65 million years ago and eliminated 75 % of all species, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

Cho freely mixes visual styles in the strip, drawing the majority of the cast like Walt Kelly's anthropomorphic animals, borrowing Dave Stevens's pin-up look for Brandy, and routinely throwing in savage musclemen, apes and dinosaurs in an elaborate homage to multiple illustrators, including Frank Frazetta and Barry Windsor-Smith's work on Conan the Barbarian.

It includes the great majority of dinosaurs with armor in the form of bony osteoderms.

For instance, the entire Superorder Dinosauria, as traditionally defined, would have to be considered as pseudoextinct, because feathered dinosaurs are considered by the majority of modern palaeontologists as the ancestors of modern day birds.

He computed how these events could move material into Earth-crossing orbits to become meteorites or larger Earth-impacting bodies responsible for the devastating impacts that caused mass extinctions of the majority of living species, including the dinosaurs.

The preserved fauna consists of almost all dinosaurs with the majority being carnivorous dinosaurs including Allosaurus ( material from at least 44 individuals make up almost 67 % of all remains ), Torvosaurus ( 1 ), Ceratosaurus ( 1 ), Stokesosaurus ( 2 ), Marshosaurus ( 2 ), and possibly an Ornitholestes.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

By that time, the majority of black people were U. S .- born, so use of the term " African " became problematic.

Calvinism became the theological system of the majority in Scotland ( see John Knox ), the Netherlands, with men such as William Ames, T J Frelinghuysen and Wilhelmus à Brakel and parts of Germany ( especially those adjacent to the Netherlands ) with the likes of Olevianus and his colleague Zacharias Ursinus.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

After obtaining power, the vast majority of " idealistic " reformers gained huge possessions of state property using their positions in the government and became business oligarchs in a manner that appeared antithetical to an emerging democracy.

This re-united group, which now included the large majority of Christadelphians, became known as the Central fellowship named after the Birmingham Central ecclesia.

As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

Charles X had succeeded Louis XVIII in 1824, but in 1827 his party suffered a major electoral setback and by 1830 the opposition liberal party became the majority.

As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) frequently received the majority of votes ; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51 % of the vote.

Following a UN plebiscite in May 1956, in which a majority of the Ewe voted for union with Ghana, British Togoland became part of the Gold Coast.

At the 1962 general election the Grenada National Party won a majority and Herbert Blaize became Chief Minister for the second time.

In 1863, the International Financial Society became the majority shareholders of the HBC.

Following a process of decolonization in the 20th century the vast majority of the empire became independent ; however, its cultural impact is widespread and deep in many countries of the present day.

It became the official opposition in 1999, a minority government in 2007 and a majority government from 2011.

In the 2009 elections however, PASOK became the majority party in the Parliament and George Papandreou became Prime Minister of Greece.

The vast majority of the Legitimists abandoned the political arena or became marginalised.

Irish-born became the majority in Toronto by 1851.

Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property rights have evolved over centuries, it was not until the 19th century that the term intellectual property began to be used, and not until the late 20th century that it became commonplace in the majority of the world.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

The sentient kelp is almost extinct, Ship is gone, there is no more dry land, the majority of humanity is heavily mutated from the genetic experiments performed by Jesus Lewis, and a power-hungry mad man is attempting to control the planet.

The language became extinct during the Narragansetts ' years of living within the larger majority society and its members declining in speaking their own language.

By the latter part of the 20th century the majority of Great Andamanese languages had become extinct.

The Itelmen language ( ethnonym: Itelmen ) is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family, but it is now virtually extinct, the vast majority of ethnic Itelmens being native speakers of Russian.

The vast majority of Scythological scholars agree that the Scythian-Sarmatian languages ( and Ossetic ) belong to the Eastern Iranian language family — like the once widespread but now extinct Sogdian language.

A majority of coelurosaur groups became extinct in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, including the Tyrannosauroidea, Ornithomimosauria, Oviraptorosauria, Deinonychosauria, Enantiornithes, and Hesperornithes.

Like most extinct cats, the majority of species in Metailurini are known primarily from fragments.

Lake-Iroquois languages make up the majority of Northern Iroquois, with the exception of “ nearly extinct ” Tuscarora and extinct Nottoway ( ibid ).

The fact that the vast majority of the species that have existed on Earth have become extinct, has led to the suggestion that all species have a finite lifespan and thus human extinction would be inevitable.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

The border city of Vukovar underwent a three month siege – the Battle of Vukovar — during which most of the city was destroyed and a majority of the population was forced to flee.

The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, during a period known as the " Hundred Schools of Thought ", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are " present and voting " and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.

Some evidence indicates that during armoured combat the intention was to actually get around the armour rather than through it — according to a study of skeletons found in Visby, Sweden, a majority of the skeletons showed wounds on less well protected legs.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The majority of crannog excavations were poorly conducted ( by modern standards ) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by early antiquarians, or were indeed purely accidental finds as lochs were drained during the improvements to increase usable farmland or pasture.

For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.

The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

The Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá states that Guardians should be lineal descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh, that each Guardian must select his successor during his lifetime, and that the nine Hands of the Cause of God permanently stationed in the holy land must approve the appointment by majority vote.

About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.

They began to remove internal customs barriers during the Industrial Revolution, though, and the German Customs Union Zollverein was formed among the majority of the states in 1834.

The majority of scholars tend to understand Plotinus ' opponents as being a Gnostic sect — certainly ( specifically Sethian ), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus ' lifetime.

The great majority of Ecuadorans trace their origins to one or more of three geographical sources of Human migrations: the pre-Hispanic indigenous Amerindians who settled the region over 15, 000 years ago, the Europeans ( principally Spaniards ) who arrived over 5 centuries ago, and ultimately the black sub-Saharan Africans whom they imported as slave labour during the same period.

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

The other was an FCC rulemaking in 1966 that required broadcasters who owned both full-time AM stations and FM properties in the same city to program each of them with separate programming during a majority of the day.

The club has spent twenty-four seasons in English football's top division, the majority of that in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s.

Also, if the Flynn effect has ended for the majority in developed nations, it may still continue for minorities, especially for groups like immigrants where many may have received poor nutrition during early childhood or have had other disadvantages.

Mergers of galaxies were common during the early epoch, and the majority of galaxies were peculiar in morphology.

This is a grammar, and — at least in the case of one's native language — the vast majority of the information in it is acquired not by conscious study or instruction, but by observing other speakers ; much of this work is done during infancy.