The Extinction That Never Happened

Eons

28th August 2017 10 mins Season 1 Episode 10

Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.

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