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r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • Mar 06 '25
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100 u/Winter-Actuary-9659 Mar 06 '25 Well they are related. 7 u/DizzyGlizzy029 Mar 06 '25 Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol 16 u/pseudoHappyHippy Mar 06 '25 And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter. 9 u/ryan77999 29d ago Evolution is funny like that. Like how whales are closer to humans than they are to fish 4 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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Well they are related.
7 u/DizzyGlizzy029 Mar 06 '25 Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol 16 u/pseudoHappyHippy Mar 06 '25 And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter. 9 u/ryan77999 29d ago Evolution is funny like that. Like how whales are closer to humans than they are to fish 4 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol
16 u/pseudoHappyHippy Mar 06 '25 And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter. 9 u/ryan77999 29d ago Evolution is funny like that. Like how whales are closer to humans than they are to fish 4 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter.
9 u/ryan77999 29d ago Evolution is funny like that. Like how whales are closer to humans than they are to fish 4 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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Evolution is funny like that. Like how whales are closer to humans than they are to fish
4 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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