Comments by "Dr. Ian Plect" (@Dr.IanPlect) on "The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts" video.

  1. "Make it make sense", You just did.
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  2. Their closest relatives are non-avian dinosaurs, specifically theropods, as birds are too.
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  3. "I would want to suggest that the animals at that time were before reptiles and mammals diverged" - they never diverged; reptiles and mammals both had ancestors that diverged (basal amniotes) into separate lineages; one produced reptiles, the other mammals "avians are direct descendants of that time and are are still living and thriving among us" - this is ambiguous, but seems to follow on from referring to the period before 'reptiles and mammals diverged'. You seem to be saying then that birds descended from a time before 'reptiles and mammals diverged', which is wrong
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  4. They are reptiles and descendants of reptiles.
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