The phrase Dead Clade Walking refers to the fact that some clades (groups) of organisms which survived mass extinctions, either become extinct a few million years after the mass extinction or fail to recover in numbers and diversity.
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Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or walking:
“Max, surely you’ll meet me at the Ritz at five.
Hurry up somebody’s dead we’re still alive.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“... never, walking away
As light fails, to notice the first star
Pulsing alone in a long shell-coloured sky....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)