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(04-17-2020, 12:03 PM)Spalea Wrote: " Birds are dinosaurs, dinosaurs are closest related to crocodiles. Crocodiles are therefore closer related to birds than they are to lizards. Both crocodiles and lizards are reptiles. So why do people refrain from calling birds reptiles, after all birds are dinosaurs. (To eliminate confusion, synapsids are adjacent to reptiles but they themselves are not reptiles, so mammals are thus not reptiles either). "

Modern-day birds like chickens and ostriches would be (distantly) related to theropods like T-rex, and theropods were physically intermediate between birds and modern-day reptiles, but what about sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus? Whereas say crocodilia and theropods were carnivores with elongated, powerful jaws, sauropods were herbivores that looked more like giraffes and camels. Also see this thread: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-are-din...#pid120735

Skull of a saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus, foreground) and gharial (Gavialis gangeticus, background) in the Museum of Zoology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, by I. Marriomassone:
   

Sue the T-rex at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the USA, by Scott Robert Anselmo:
   

Exhibit of a chicken's skeleton (Gallus gallus domesticus) at the Education and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, by Daderot:
   

Skeleton of Brachiosaurus in Chicago by Roland Arhelger:
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