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No. Despite sharing some characteristics mammals and birds are not closely related.
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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 birds of paradise mammals?
Of course not ...no birds are mammals !!!!!!!!!!!No, they are birds.
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 more closely related to amphibians or mammals?
Dinosaurs are more closely related to mammals. Both mammals and dinosaurs share a reptilian ancestor that they don't share with amphibians.
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 birds more closely related to mammals or to reptiles?
They're more closely related to reptiles because they are descended from dinosaurs.
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.
Are birds closest to mammals or reptiles?
While at first glance birds seem similar to mammals, they are more closely related to reptiles.
What is more closely related bats and birds or Bats and bears?
Bats and bears . . . they're both mammals. A bird isn't.
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.
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 stick insect a mammal reptile or a bird?
Either. A stick insect is an insect, and invertebrate and is not related to mammals or birds. Birds and mammals are more closely related to each other than they are to insects.
