What Makes A Dinosaur?

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

• Systema Naturae: A 1735 book by Carl Linnaeus that outlined his hierarchical classification of animals.
• Plagiuri: an early,now disused, biological subclassification of fish used by Linnaeus that also included dolphins and whales.
• Anthropomorpha: a defunct taxon established by Linnaeus for genera Homo (humans), Simia (monkeys and apes in general) and Bradypus (sloths).
• Cladogram: A branching diagram showing the evolutionary relationship between species.
• Dimetrodon: An extinct carnivorous synapsid related to early mammals.
• Plesiosaur: An extinct marine reptile with a long neck related to modern snakes.

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