• loaExMachina
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    4 months ago

    Well, they’re avialans, which are paravians, which are maniraptorans, which are coelurosaurs, which are tetanurans, which are theropods, which may be saurischians according to the most mainstream classification, or ornithoscelidae according to an alternate hypothesis, either way they’re dinosaurs, which are avemetatarsalians, which are archosaurs, which are diapsids, which are #REPTILES.

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        4 months ago

        Nah, mammals aren’t reptiles. We’re synapsids, which is a sister group to reptiles. Early synapsids lime dimetrodon looked and behaved like reptiles, but aren’t really classifies as such.