Besides bringing new species to the textbooks - and relegating them immediately to the "extinct" category - the study sheds new light on the extinction event, widely thought to have been caused by an enormous asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65.5 million years ago.

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On October 3, the Army and Marine Corps issued a revised solicitation aimed at saving their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle from extinction at the hands of Congress.

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