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Ciro Santilli
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Amniote
Updated
2025-04-24
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Created
1970-01-01
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Name
origin:
amnion
,
a
pellicle that covers embryos of both
eggs
and also during
pregnancy
.
Includes:
sauropsida
:
reptiles
and
birds
, which really are
reptiles
mammals
, or if you want to include
a
bunch
of
extinct
non-
reptile
mammal
ancestors,
synapsids
.
Does not include
amphibians
. If you include them, you have the
tetrapods
.
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Monotreme
Updated
2025-04-24
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Created
1970-01-01
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The weirdest
mammal
clade
: they lay fucking
eggs
. Only
5
known
species
alive
as
of 2020.
Eggs
are
basal
: they simply didn'
t
evolve out of what other
reptiles
do. From which
we
conclude that
milk
came before
eggs
stopped.
So this is the most basal subclade of
mammals
.
Etymology
:
means
"single hole" in
Greek
, because like other
reptiles
it
has a
single hole for
shit
,
pee
and
fucking
: the
cloaca
.
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