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Wait are snakes not a type of lizard??
No. Modern biology likes to classify groups based on ancestry. Any grouping which was based on a common ancestor of all known lizard species would also include snakes. Therefore, "lizard" is invalid in that sense, and only used informally.
Same with "reptile," since birds also descend from the most recent common ancestor of all reptile species.
This is really hard to explain without a picture.
I like to think about how birds are dinosaurs and then watch a cute smol bird bouncing and dancing around and then think about how dinosaurs were probably really cute