>>58845275 see >>58845452But I also want to add: birds and most reptiles are sauropsids, but I think thats a little too high in the classification tree for it to matter in this discussion
Also, "birds are dinosaurs but dinosaurs aren't birds" can be expanded into: birds are dinosaurs in the sense that they evolved from avian dinosaurs, which coexisted with non-avian dinosaurs and evolved into very similar but different species
So you *could* say that they are the same, and you wouldn't necessarily be wrong... But they still are different enough to need different classifications
