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Dinosaurs are still roaming the Earth. We just call them "birds" if they are around after the Cretaceous.
Yes, this is quite often said, but I think it would be more correct to call them descendants of dinosaurs. We don't say humans are of the same category as our ancestors of say 30 million years ago. Similarly with other mammalian species.
 
Dinosaurs are still roaming the Earth. We just call them "birds" if they are around after the Cretaceous.
Yes, this is quite often said, but I think it would be more correct to call them descendants of dinosaurs. We don't say humans are of the same category as our ancestors of say 30 million years ago. Similarly with other mammalian species.
Sure we do. We called them "Mammals" then, and we still call them "Mammals" now. We don't say "Humans are not mammals, but they are descended from mammals that lived in the Cretaceous".

"Dinosaur" is a huge category, that includes theropods, sauropods, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods, ceratopsians, and pachycephalosaurs. Why not include aves too?
 
Dinosaurs are still roaming the Earth. We just call them "birds" if they are around after the Cretaceous.
Yes, this is quite often said, but I think it would be more correct to call them descendants of dinosaurs. We don't say humans are of the same category as our ancestors of say 30 million years ago. Similarly with other mammalian species.
Sure we do. We called them "Mammals" then, and we still call them "Mammals" now. We don't say "Humans are not mammals, but they are descended from mammals that lived in the Cretaceous".

"Dinosaur" is a huge category, that includes theropods, sauropods, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods, ceratopsians, and pachycephalosaurs. Why not include aves too?
Good point !
 
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