Monstrous ‘gorgonians’ survived a mass extinction, but they were a ‘walking dead clade’
Reports of a mass extinction of “gorgonians” at the end of the Permian period have been greatly exaggerated, according to new research. These strange paleo-beasts were thought to have died out along with most other life on Earth at the time, but scientists have recently discovered that some of these so-called gorgonians survived into the …
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