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it goes way back to the archosaurs. from these reptiles came crocodilians on one hand, and birds on the other. in between of course there where the dinosaurs.
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What is mostly related to crocodiles rodents or birds?
Birds. The reason is that both crocodiles and dinosaurs are archosaurs, and birds evolved from dinosaurs.
What other reptiles are related to crocodiles?
Crocodiles are distantly related to lizards and snakes and even more distantly related to turtles. Strangely, the closest relatives to crocodiles and alligators are actually birds. This is because both crocodiles and dinosaurs belong to a group called archosaurs. Birds, in turn, evolved from dinosaurs.
Which reptile is most related to birds?
Of reptiles that are alive today, crocodiles and alligators are most closely related to birds, as they are both descended from the archosaur branch.
Is a chicken related to an alligator?
Yes. Crocodiles and birds are both archosaurs. This branch of animals once included crocodiles, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs. Birds branched off from the latter. This technically makes crocodiles more closely related to birds than they are to lizards and snakes.
Which organisms are most closely related to Crocadiles?
Birds are the closest living relatives to crocodiles. Both birds and crocodiles are members of the group Archosauria, which also includes dinosaurs. This shared ancestry can be seen in similarities in their skeletal structures and reproductive systems.
Are crocodiles and tuatara dinosaur?
No, though they are somewhat related. Surprisingly, the only animals around today that can be considered dinosaurs are birds.
Is a crocodile and snake more closely related to each other than a fish and dolphin or birds and bat?
SnakeKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: ReptiliaOrder: SquamataSuperfamily: Varanoidea(unranked): PythonomorphaSuborder: SerpentesLinnaeus, 1758CrocodilesKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: Reptilia(unranked): NeosuchiaOrder: CrocodyliaSuperfamily: CrocodyloideaFamily: CrocodylidaeCuvier, 1807FrogKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: AmphibiaSubclass: LissamphibiaOrder: Anura
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.
What are some of the crocodiles prey?
Small crocodiles eat frog(amphibians) ,small birds and fish. As adults crocodiles eat mammals like wilde beasts, fish, birds and snakes.
What are the crocodiles relatives?
Crocodiles and other members of the group crocodilia are the dinosaurs closest living relatives.Crocodiles are somtimes refered to as ''living dinosaurs'', this is based on the idea that their anatomy hasn't changed much over millions of years. Crocodiles are not however dinosaurs themselves.Modern day Birds on the other hand ARE dinosaurs.Birds are a type of maniraptorian theropod dinosaur. Birds are the only dinosaur group to survive the mass extinction ~65million years ago. So therefore dinosaurs are Not extinct. (and they are doing quite well. There are approximately twice as many birds species than there are mammals.)Birds are therefore Crocodiles closest living relatives. And vise versa.Crocodiles and dinosaurs (+birds) are both members of the group Archosauria.Yes, both dinosaurs and crocodilians are archosaurs (the "ruling reptiles", they belong to the clade Archosauria, along with pterosaurs and some other closely related, but extinct, animals) and are therefore fairly closely related. Crocodiles however are NOT dinosaurs, nor did they evolve from dinosaurs (or vice versa) - they are simply related to them.
Did underwater dinosaurs evolve into crocodiles?
what an interesting topic! Birds and reptiles are the living descendantsof the dinosaurs that survived the meteorite-triggered mass extinction that killed off most of the species living 66 million years ago. And of all reptiles, crocodiles are the most closely related to birds.
What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence - Many scientists say that birds and crocodiles may be related to dinosaurs?
to dinosaurs. to is the preposition and dinosaurs is the object of the preposition.
