Is Godzilla (2014) a reptile, amphibian, dinosaur? What is he?

What??? For one dinosaurs ARE reptiles, and two, where does it ever say that. Godzilla is an amphibian? Amphibians for one do not possess scaly skin (whereas reptiles do), they do not have claws, and no spines. Godzilla is a reptile

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One of the toy descriptions stated that Godzilla was "amphibious," I believe.

Amphibious doesn't mean he can't be repitle

Amphibious == being an amphibian. Amphibious means being well adapted for both terrestrial and aquatic life. Plenty of reptiles are amphibious: crocodilians, many kinds of snakes, some types of lizards, and many turtles

i have a feeling he is from an undiscovered group of animals in the new movie, same with the mutos. 

im gonna say hes a mammal-like reptile

Simple biology dictates that Godzilla is an amphibian. The word literally means "two lives," referencing his ability to live/survive/thrive both in and out of water.

Some reptiles live their lives partially in the water such as certain types of iguanas and monitor lizards, as well as a few species of snakes. Though they're text book reptiles, the fact that almost equal parts of their lives can be and are lived both on land and in the sea identifies them also as amphibians.

"Amphibian" is more a reference to lifestyle than it is a classification of a particular animal or group of animal species. It's a simple distinction, not a real classification.

So Godzilla, while having reptilian characteristics such as scaly skin and a tail, is an amphibian.

@TW_G-Fan2014 Yeah, we're talking actual classifications for this case. The difference in classification between "amphibians" and "reptiles" in the specific case. You know where I'm going with this right? We're talking a species that doesn't go through a larval stage of any sort, despite even stronger ties to the water with the presence of now non-vital gills that were once the prime staple of the species.

So, what we were all talking about was whether Godzilla belonged more to the group containing frogs, salamanders, newts, and caecilians, OR to the group containing dinosaurs, crocodilians, and birds, OR the group containing lizards, snakes, and all manner of sea-bound reptiles like plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, icthyosaurs, mosasaurs, etc.

Personally, I'm inclined to place him next to crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds, descended from the archosaur line, somewhere between the split between crocodilians and dinosaurs.

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Sea otters, for example, are considered to be amphibious mammals, does it mean that it is amphibian?