Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20150713052232/@comment-25555436-20150727023133

SpiritedDreaming wrote: ...If they predate Dinosaurs...doesn't that mean they are dinosaurs? Like, the original ones? That logic doesn't quite make sense to me. Eh, absolutely not.

Dinosaur is, by definition, every reptile species from the Mesozoic era, or rather just every species from that era, it's just that the vertebrates developed the most, and among them reptiles did the most, though not all dinosaurs were reptiles. And now it's known that no matter what Jurasic Park tells you, they were a lot more like birds, especially the raptors (feathery and made similar noises, though they didn't all fly).

Anything before that era is NOT a dinosaur, at all. The "original" ones were born and developed in the ocean, and those are, by definition, not dinosaurs. Even the ones that have "saur" in their name like the plesiosaur, are not actually dinosaurs.