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:
“Perhaps it’s more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)