MUTO...Insect or Reptile?

In all fairness saying MUTOs are mammals is like saying Godzilla is a flamingo's ancestor, it just doesn't make sense.

QuinnTKO

Yeah, they may have had some mammalian inspiration that was used for their design (technically they also had reptilian, insectoid and arachnid features used in their designs as well), but their final design, behavior, and lifecycle doesn't really fit the idea of them being mammals. It's like saying that the Heisei Godzilla is a mammal because he has some mammalian features in his design.

Honestly, I don't think we could technically classify the MUTOs as any known group of animal. It's easier to say that they're some type of ancient creature and the group they evolved from was lost to time.

SasquaDash

They could be an extinct clade of eight limbed vertebrates that coexisted with tertarpods

I think MUTOs are both reptilian and insect.

@maxiva

How is that possible? Reptiles and Insects can't naturally hybridize. It has to be a unique clade of animals unseen in the fossil records that have evolved  convergent reptile, mammalian, and insect traits but yet not related to either of these groups.

gtbetta35 Hmmm, they actually could be Reptiles. 

I think it's a cross between an insect and a reptile.

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