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Based on the sizes and shapes of these burrows, we concluded that they were most likely excavated by small mammal-like reptiles roughly the size of modern gophers or mole rats.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 6, 2022
But Julia Clarke of the University of Texas at Austin and her colleagues found that the sounds of predatory dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex might have been more birdlike than mammal-like.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2022
Monitor lizards, the most famous of which is the Komodo dragon, are considered by many biologists who have studied them to have mammal-like smarts.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017
Scientists examining the jawbone of a saber-toothed, mammal-like beast that prowled Tanzania 255 million years ago have come across a remarkable fossil rarity: one of the oldest-known tumors.
From Reuters ● Dec. 8, 2016
Some of the Permian reptiles, such as the dog-toothed Cynodonts, were extraordinarily mammal-like, and it was probably from among them that definite mammals emerged in the Triassic.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
