The ancestors of birds were reptiles. No matter how different they are from their ancestors, they’re still reptiles. They’re birds as well, but being different doesn’t mean they left the clade.
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Varcour@lemm.ee 6 days agoThen how did different clades evolve?
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theneverfox@pawb.social 5 days ago
By getting in early, and having a lot of child branches on the tree of life