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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris" data-source="post: 1868544" data-attributes="member: 2820">Yes, but as I said if you read the description in the MM is says "resembles" lions or eagle, not derived from. And  convergence does produce stiking similarities, eg Batesian mimicry. But we need not achieve "exact replicas" because we are not required to. The description merely says that the organism has parts that have the same general body pattern as another animal that all.As for Bats/Birds both share a hollow bone structure (birds a true hollow and bats merely the lightest bone mass/cc of any mammal).Feathers and Fur is merely fur flying. We are assuming that the natural history of our generic fantasy setting  is the same as our world. It need not and magic may be the causitive agent behind ancient "mergers". But we can always find exceptions to "But if it's got feathers and the same bone strucutre of every other bird, it comes from another bird" from egg laying mammals to ovoviporous reptiles and I know you know of a reptile with feathers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>