Dinosaurs aren't lizards. Dinosaurs are reptiles. Birds are reptiles. Lizards are reptiles. Squares are rectangles. Rectangles aren't squares. Pluto isnt a planet. Your mom

Tell me this isn't a fucking dinosaur:

happy belated birthday. 🎂.

If it makes you feel any better, the reason for this is that you can’t evolve out of your clade, and modern birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs.

For the same reason you can’t evolve out of your clade, humans are apes, we’re old world monkeys, and we’re also still fish.

If it makes you feel better, I hold that the proper term is Archosaur, which covers Dinosaurs, Crocodilians, and Birds. And cladistically, in terms of common ancestors, birds are and have always been reptiles.

Also, Re: the Pluto thing: what you should really be angry about is that the only reason the Moon doesn't qualify as a planet is because the IAU specifically excludes it. By all the rules, the moon would at least qualify as a binary planet with Earth, because the moon's orbit around the sun never actually crosses itself. It describes an orbit basically the same shape as the earth's. If Pluto, Ceres, and Eris aren't planets, then Luna definitely is, or their rules are not consistent.

E: removed an innacuracy. See commenter below.

Birds are reptiles though.

Happy birthday, you old dinosaur!

You don't know if dinasours didn't have feathers!!

T-rex is just a wingless, featherless biped, dontcha knoo.

Also, mammals are fish. Happy birthday.

It’s like Pluto all over again.

Wait... What is your take on Pluto? Are you drawing a similarity as a taxonomic exclusivist, i.e. "Birds≠Dinosaurs::Pluto≠Planet" or as a taxonomic traditionalist, i.e. "Classifications are and shall ever be as they were in the 1960s"?

Because the conclusion we should draw about your opinion on the planethood of Pluto depends absolutely upon the taxonomic philosophy you adhere to as the lens through which you make the comparison.

Funny enough... dinosaurs weren't lizards, either. Most had feathers.