" Crocodiles" are advanced lizard. Why is this statement false?

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Crocodiles are not advanced lizards but can be called as advanced birds. Birds have descended from dinosaurs and are more closely related to crocodiles, than the crocodiles are related to lizards.
The crocodile bird lineage separated from the descendants of dinosaurs a very long time ago as compared to the lizards.

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