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Re: Language of saurian/reptilian beings

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Sunday, September 29, 2002, 3:10
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> That's ENTIRELY a question of definitions. If you take a cladistic view, > dinosaurs (along with birds and mammals) are defintely reptiles (since > they're all descended from a common ancestor)
Mammals aren't reptiles, even in the cladistic view. Reptiles, birds, and mammals are grouped together as Amniota, which is subdivided into Synapsida (of which mammals are the only extant group) and reptilia, at least, according to the Tree of Life site: http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Amniota&contgroup=Terrestrial_vertebrates -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42