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Also, it was not very hard for me to accept that birds are dinosaurs even before I knew phylogenetic nomenclature. Maybe it was because they mentioned it in Walking with Dinosaurs, at least in the version of my language, I do not know about the original or other versions.
That's why I am wondering why it is hard for people to accept this. And I think that you are doing good job. (I may have said this before.)
Really, though, this whole "Birds are descended from them but aren't dinosaurs" is like saying a cougar isn't a small cat because it's the size of normal pantherines, it's ridiculous and outright biologically impossible.
A crow, for instance, is a passerine. That doesn't mean that passerines aren't avians, and avians aren't dinosaurs because the crow doesn't look like a sauropod. That's illogical bullshit that people throw out so as not to associate the pseudosaurs of JP with birds and seeing the truth about dinosaurs. Theropods, especially, get that bullshit treatment.
I see a crow with you, hypothetically, and say "There's a crow over there." Just because I don't say "There's a genus Corvus corvid passerine avian dromaeosaurid maniraptor theropod eusaurischian saurischian dinosaur dinosauromorph ornithodire avemetatarsalian archosaur crurotarsian archosauriforme archosauromorph saurian neodiapsid diapsid romerid eureptile sauropsid reptile amniote tetrapod teleostome eugnathostomatid gnathostomatid vertebrate craniate chordate animal over there." doesn't mean crows aren't a part of any of those groups.
It's just an easier way of identifying animals. Identification has no say on biology, after all, so why they try to bring common terminology into the argument is beyond me.
Plus, as you said, mammals are far more differing to each other then dinosaurs. Most people know mammals more then they do dinosaurs (avian or otherwise) because people exhibit a queer sense of egotism; they always put mammals above other, more abundant, organsims.
I don't clade Yutyrannus with Saltopus because Yutyrannus looks nothing like Tyrannosaurus, that's nonsense. Yutyrannus cleanly clades into the Tyrannosauroidae.
You're lucky that you're not already burn for your heresy!
I wonder how many will misinterpret this.