'Dead clades walking': Fossil record provides new insights into mass extinctions

Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in biodiversity that wipe out entire animal groups. Some of the doomed groups linger on before going extinct, and a team of scientists found these 'dead clades walking' (DCW) are more common and long-lasting than expected.

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