dinosaur taxon vs. dinosaur lineage

[Julian Humphries]

Ken Kinman wrote:
>
> lineage as a whole has not gone extinct.  Banging people over the head with
> statements like "birds ARE dinosaurs"  just comes across as Ivory Tower
> cladistic pedantry.


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