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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

The animal was a member of an extinct group of four-legged carnivores called gorgonopsians that mixed mammal-like and reptile-like traits.

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2016

Synapsids also include therapsids, which were mammal-like reptiles from which mammals evolved.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Similarly, in the Permian come mammal-like reptiles, that point also downward to the amphibia.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)