Late Cretaceous/cretaceous%e2%80%93paleogene Mass Extinction

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    “Or seen the furrows shine but late upturned,
    And where the fieldfare followed in the rear,
    When all the fields around lay bound and hoar
    Beneath a thick integument of snow.
    So by God’s cheap economy made rich
    To go upon my winter’s task again.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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    “The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)