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How are birds and lizards related?

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Anonymous

7y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

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.

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