Why do reptiles and birds have so much in common?

Answer 1

The most similar thing about birds and reptiles is that they both lay eggs. However, it is important to note that not all reptiles lay eggs. There are many species of snakes and lizards which do not lay eggs, but instead give birth to live young.

Answer 2

birds and reptiles both lay eggs.they both are endothermic veterbrates

both have scales on their feet and legs

Answer 3

Birds are descended from reptiles and their last common ancestor with reptiles was more recent than that of mammals. Birds are directly descended from small, carnivorous feathered dinosaurs that lived in the late Jurassic period about 150 million years ago.

Answer 4

Birds are reptiles. They are the last surviving dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are also reptiles. All birds are also both dinosaurs and reptiles.

Not all reptiles are birds, though.

Answer 5

Birds are related to reptiles because birds are descended from dinosaurs. And as most of us know dinosaurs were reptiles. More specifically from a group of small meat eating dinosaurs.

Answer 6

Birds and reptiles has same kingdom which is kingdom animalia, they also belong in the same phylum which is chorata. They're also both vertebrates.

Answer 7

no,it is not the same.

Answer 8

They both lay eggs.