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n. - Reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye.

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  • This confirms my suspicion that it takes a diapsid to know one
  • Birds are also clearly diapsids and if every living amniote that isnt a mammal is a diapsid then birds are diapsid reptiles too.
  • Perhaps the confusion here is the similarity to the term “theropod” which always refers to a diapsid except when it refers to Lenny. ben
  • This is where Lenny caustically suggested that I was a YEC for not knowing that turtles had been reclassified as diapsids with a secondarily anapsid appearing skull I hope that...
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