LMAO at your bird brain thinking or is it dinosaur brain thinking.
Do-While and I are laughing our asses off at you.
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Reptile Classification
The abstract said there are three kinds of reptiles in the two branches of the mythical reptile evolutionary tree. Archosauromorphs (crocodiles, avian and non-avian dinosaurs) are in one branch. Lepidosauromorphs (squamates (lizards, snakes) and sphenodontians (tuataras)) are in the other branch. You are probably familiar with most of them—but not by their technical names.
Archosauromorphs
You know what crocodiles are.
Non-avian dinosaurs are what you commonly think of as dinosaurs.
“Avian dinosaurs” is the new name for “birds.” Birds have been declared to be flying (avian) dinosaurs, so birds are now lizards. If you don’t believe us, just go to the American Museum of Natural History.
| In the view of most paleontologists today, birds are living dinosaurs. In other words, the traits that we accept as defining birds -- key skeletal features as well as behaviors including nesting and brooding -- actually arose first in some dinosaurs. Most intriguing, and debated, is the evidence of feathers and featherlike structures on these dinosaurs, as seen throughout this exhibition. 2 |
Birds are dinosaurs. It must be true. Scientists say so. Don’t question them.
Lepidosauromorphs
Lepidosauromorphs are divided into squamates and sphenodontians.
Squamates are lizards and snakes. You know what they are.
Sphenodontians are tuatara. You might not know what they are.
Tuatara were originally classified as lizards in 1831 when the British Museum received a skull. The genus remained misclassified until 1867, when Albert Günther of the British Museum noted features similar to birds, turtles, and crocodiles. He proposed the order Rhynchocephalia (meaning "beak head") for the tuatara and its fossil relatives.
At one point many disparately related species were incorrectly referred to the Rhynchocephalia, resulting in what taxonomists call a "wastebasket taxon". Williston proposed the Sphenodontia to include only tuatara and their closest fossil relatives in 1925. 3 |
What should be clear from that quote is that
classification is nothing more than a matter of opinion, which could change at any time. Classification appears to be objective because specific criteria are used to determine classification—but the determination of those criteria is subjective and subject to change. Because the criteria changed, birds became dinosaurs.
Tuatara are reptiles that don’t really fit neatly in any category. Since all evolutionists believe that species evolved slowly (except those like Stephen J. Gould who don’t believe in gradual evolution) it should be easy for evolutionists to classify tuatara—but it isn’t, so they put species like tuatara (and the platypus) in a wastebasket taxon.
Tuatara were formerly “misclassified.”
Now they are correctly classified because academics (who cannot be questioned)
have decided they are properly classified, just like
birds have now been properly classified as dinosaurs. Tuatara are Sphenodontian"
What you posted are more evos' articles. What does it do with classification? Classification is just opinion which could change at any time like when someone who gets caught in a lie or like when you just got caught in attributing atheist science articles to me. Why don't you pay so we can read the whole article? You are a cheapskate lol.
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