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"Under the current system of classification, the answer is no, birds and reptiles are in different classes. This classification is based on a scheme that has been generally accepted for many years. Scientists today are pretty sure that what we now call birds evolved from a reptilian ancestor, and that feathers, a unique feature of birds, are actually just highly modified scales. Some would say that to separate birds and lizards is like separating bats from the class mammalia, just because they can fly." -Ken Burton on eNature.com

birds are not reptiles . they are included in a separate class called AVES. but birds have for sure evolved from reptiles. there is evidence in an ancient bird called archaeopteryx. it was a bird with reptilian features.

The univercity of Michigan, and I am sure others think the same, consider birds reptiles.

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