Monotremes diverged from the therian mammal lineage 166 Myr ago and developed ... Mammal lineages are in red; diapsid reptiles, shown as archosaurs (birds, crocodilians and dinosaurs), are in ...
They are then thought to have increased to gigantic proportions in the dinosaur lineage. "Analysing changes in body size throughout archosaur evolution, we found compelling evidence that it ...