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.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

Fermi's group soon made the discovery of slow neutrons, which was to prove pivotal for the working of nuclear reactors.

His group systematically bombarded elements with slow neutrons, and during their experiments with uranium, narrowly missed observing nuclear fission.

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The Fagaceae, or oak family, is a very slow evolving clade compared to other angiosperms, and the patterns of hybridization and introgression in Quercus pose a great challenge to the concept of a species since a species is often defined as a group of “ actually or potentially interbreeding populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups .” By this definition, many species of Quercus would be lumped together according to their geographic and ecological habitat, despite clear distinctions in morphology and, to a large extent, genetic data.

France had a slow start in the group stage, drawing their first two games and putting their playoff chances at risk.

" The rules of the road for the Infinite Corridor include: stay to the right, limit group size, pass on the left, form a line at bottlenecks, don't stop / slow down, no tailgating, traffic within corridor has right of way, no physical contact and no eye contact.

***** Ground sloths were another group of slow, terrestrial xenarthrans, related to modern tree sloths.

A was recorded as an intended Ian Anderson solo album before Tull's record label, Chrysalis, asked that it become credited to the group to help the label get through overall slow record sales.

After changing their name to Manfred Mann at the behest of their label's producer John Burgess, the group signed with His Master's Voice in March 1963 and began their recorded output that July with the slow, bluesy instrumental single " Why Should We Not ?".

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In the face of slow negotiations with the Chinese government, widespread anti-Japanese sentiment in China and international condemnation forced Japan to withdraw the final group of demands and treaties were signed in May 1915.

Flight is a mixture of a slow, deep flapping and short glides: unlike their European namesakes, White-winged Choughs are not particularly strong or agile fliers and spend the great majority of their time on the ground, foraging methodically through leaf litter for worms, insects, grain, and snails in a loose group, walking with a distinctive swagger, and calling softly to one another every few seconds.

" When discussing Slayer in an October 2007 interview, Evile frontman Matt Drake stated that while Reign in Blood " was just speed ", South of Heaven proved that the group could write " slow material as well.

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Islamic invasions affected this group by forcing its slow migration from Kashmir to Andhra Pradesh via Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.

In the face of the steady disintegration of its rival, the fledgling American Federation of Labor struggled to maintain itself, with the group showing very slow and incremental growth in its first years, only cracking the 250, 000 member mark in 1892.

The group lost its recording contract with Atlantic due to the slow sales of Inamorata but continued to tour, mostly in small clubs.

Grantham's recovery was slow and expensive, and the group created a donor fund on its official website, Poconut. org, to offset some of his considerable medical expenses.

The song was sung, in a slow fox trot tempo, by a group of evening-dressed people walking along a London street.

Time described it as a " very deliberate and closely controlled film graced with a slow, severe beauty that makes its quiet edge of panic all the more chilling ", whereas Jay Robert Nash in The Motion Picture Guide declares it a " useless piece of drivel about an obnoxious group of teens ".

In contrast, some authors have suggested that one group of late Eocene European adapids ( adapines ) had adaptations for suspension and slow climbing.

:" Ordering his driver to slow down, Father waved the group to follow him to a border checkpoint that had no telephones.

Males leave when they are about 11 years old, and often the separation process is slow: they spend more and more time on the edge of the group until they leave altogether.