Re: Language of saurian/reptilian beings

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

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