I suppose what you're both saying speaks to the real issue - we lump all dinosaurs into one single 'should look a bit like this' image. It's a silly thing to d

I suppose what you're both saying speaks to the real issue - we lump all dinosaurs into one single 'should look a bit like this' image. It's a silly thing to do of course, humans don't much look like dolphins or rats for instance but we're all mammals. On the face of it that above statement seems a silly thing to say too, but it speaks to the way we tend to just apply 'dinosaur' to an incredibly diverse range of species that lived in multiple different environment right across the planet and across hundreds of millions of years. I think there's probably room to start to acknowledging that 'dinosaur' no longer really can mean 'terrible lizard' and accept that it must speak to the diversity of the species within the category.