Are frogs and lizards related?
All living things are related. It is just a matter of how close or distant the relationship is. On this basis, you can say that frogs and lizards are only distantly related. Other living organisms that are more closely related to frogs are salamanders (but none of these are in Australia). Other living organisms more closely related to lizards are, in order of a increasingly distance of relationship: snakes, the tuataras in New Zealand, crocodilians and birds, and mammals.
All living things are related. It is just a matter of how close or distant the relationship is. On this basis, you can say that frogs and lizards are only distantly related. Other living organisms that are more closely related to frogs are salamanders (but none of these are in Australia ). Other living organisms more closely related to lizards are, in order of a increasingly distance of relationship: snakes, the tuataras in New Zealand, crocodilians and birds, and mammals.
