If you’re confused: Birds are dinosaurs, crocodiles aren’t; note the “closest living relatives”
22 points
Yes and the cruel part is… Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs!
6 points
It might be easy to brush off my complaint as a case of paleo-pedantry, but word choice matters. “Dinosaur” is a word for a specific group of creatures united by shared characteristics and which had their own evolutionary history—it is not a catch-all term for anything reptilian and prehistoric.
We have known about this distinction for a long time, and I bet that your average 10-year old paleo fan would know not confuse the groups.
