Do Any Reptiles Have Feathers
They Are Literally Maniraptoran Theropods. Extinct Dinosaurs Are Ancestral to Modern Dinosaurs, Aka Birds – Which Do Have Feathers – and Not to Modern Reptiles...
They are literally maniraptoran theropods. Extinct dinosaurs are ancestral to modern dinosaurs, aka birds – which do have feathers – and not to modern reptiles such as squamates (snakes and lizards). That’s why modern reptiles lack feathers. Their lineage never had any.
What reptile has feathers?
There’s no doubt anymore: Pterosaurs — the flying reptiles that zipped through the skies during the dinosaur age — sported feathers, a finding that pushes the origin of these fluffy structures back 70 million years.
Are there any reptiles with hair?
Interestingly enough, just because lizards don’t have fur doesn’t mean they couldn’t have hair. In fact, some of them do have hair, but not how you may think. Hair, fur, feathers, and scales are all made up in large part by keratin proteins.
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