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They're more closely related to reptiles because they are descended from dinosaurs.
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∙ 12y agoThey aren't really linked to any of those....its a whole new species altogether
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Are birds closest to mammals or reptiles?
While at first glance birds seem similar to mammals, they are more closely related to reptiles.
Did mammals evolve from dinosaurs?
No. Mammals evolved from synapsid reptiles, a group not closely related to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are more closely related to modern reptiles and birds than they are to mammals.
Are mammals related to birds?
Mammals are distantly related to birds. Oddly, if you look at an evolutionary tree, birds are actually more closely related to reptiles than they are to mammals.
Are dinosaurs the oldest mammals?
No. Dinosaurs were not mammals. They were more closely related to birds and modern reptiles than they were to mammals.
Were dinosaurs mammals or amphibians?
Neither...They were reptiles. dinosaurs were nether amphibians or mammals they were all reptiles, though they are more closely related to birds.
Is a long neck and a giraffe related?
Not at all. Giraffes are mammals, which are not closely related to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are more closely related to birds and modern reptiles.
Is mammals and birds are species that closely related?
No. Despite sharing some characteristics mammals and birds are not closely related.
What evidence shows that bats and birds are closely related?
They are not THAT closely related; bats are mammals, not birds. Both mammals and birds are vertebrate animals.
Are animals related to birds?
Birds are more closely related to reptiles than they are to mammals. Birds, reptiles, and mammals all belong to a group of vertebrates called amniotes, which split off from amphibians. Amniotes split into two groups soon after they evolved: true reptiles and synapsids. Mammals are the only living synapsids today. Dinosaurs branched off from the reptiles and birds then evolved from the dinosaurs.
Did mammals evolve from a group of reptiles called raptors?
No. Mammals evolved from a group of reptiles called cynodonts. "Raptor" is an informal term for a group of dinosaurs call dromaeosaurids, which were closely related to the ancestors of birds.
How are birds and lizards related?
And they are most closely related to crocodiles, which also came from archosaurs. This is what most people mean when they say that birds are reptiles, although technically, according to the phylogenetic system, birds, reptiles, and mammals all share a reptile-like ancestor.
Are birds of paradise mammals?
Of course not ...no birds are mammals !!!!!!!!!!!No, they are birds.
