Never Realized How Relatively Recent Crown Group Sauria Is

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From what I’ve read lately it seems that the most recent common ancestor of all currently living reptiles (including birds) lived in the late Permian, close to the same time when Cynodonts first emerge. I always was under the impression that Sauria was a much more ancient group.

Posted May 8, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

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