Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> <<In both cases, I feel it is a false comparison. Calling a bird a 
> dinosaur is a completely different thing from calling a bat a mammal. It 
> is more akin to calling a mammal a therapsid, or a snake a lizard.>>
>
> Sorry to be late.  I'm a mammal and a therapsid, but I'm not a snake or a 
> lizard.  This is the fault of my ancestors, so blame them.

You misread. Jason said "calling a mammal a therapsid, or a snake a lizard", 
not "calling a mammal a therapsid or a snake or a lizard".

I don't have much of a problem with being a therapsid. I certainly have the 
thickened and raised "beast arch", right under (uh... ventral, not medial 
to) my glasses.