Comments by "Dr. Ian Plect" (@Dr.IanPlect) on "Are Birds Modern-Day Dinosaurs? | National Geographic" video.

"Birds aren’t modern-day dinosaurs, they ARE dinosaurs." - 'modern-day dinosaurs' ALREADY states they are dinosaurs! - you are wrong in stating they aren't modern-day dinosaurs because they are
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@NoName-yw1pt I asked you a question regarding your position. I may have a point to explain on the basis of your answer...
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@NoName-yw1pt "there's no way I could believe lizards aren't dinosaurs" - why?
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@own4801 When you encounter "Why would birds be related to dinosaurs and not lizards", in other words x and not y, you should include in your reply the RELATIVE relatedness. As in if it was me answering this I'd say; more related to because all organisms are related
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tripe
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@caylya7869 "Birds are like how humans are still considered ape’s because we evolved from apes." - no, what a descendant evolved from doesn't necessarily dictate what they are now. In both cases (birds>dinosaurs, humans>apes), they are still regarded as part of the larger group as they have the traits of that group - I want to be clear on the distinction. 'Because we evolved from' is the part that fails; we also evolved from lobe-finned fish and are within that group, but we are not lobe-finned fish ourselves, so here is an example where 'because we evolved from' fails. It's the traits we have now that determines grouping and classification "They are also like lemurs and other primates that don’t look like monkeys or apes." - this is just nonsense; lemurs are neither apes nor monkeys, so the analogy with birds fails completely.
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@rickbrenner6079 "That is exactly what I read in my paleontology class in college. Modern birds evolved from a dinosaur with lizard-style hips rather than bird-style hips." - birds evolved from bipedal, leg under the body theropod dinosaurs, not from splayed-out lizard-like legged ancestors
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