I can get behind dinosaurs as naked, bemuscled vaguely-therapod xenomorphs in media so long as it's like, "this is an established fantasy clade".

There needs to be a name that isn't 'dinosaurs' for it, though. One that still lets them like, exist in media alongside dragons and hypno-snakes and hellhounds and zombies

'Dyverns'

There, I fixed dinosaurs in media

@pastelbat ...it would solve my yelling ‘that’s not a dinosaur!’ urge when watching media.

I suggest it could be used for pterosaurs too. Mostly because my telling about ‘not accurate pterosaurs!’ instinct is very strong XP

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@Brainship Oh yeah, absolutely

Any prehistoric-critter-flavour fantasy murder monster can be a Dyvern tbh

Pterasaurs, Mosasaurs, heck, throw any fantastical Synapsids you come across in there, it's all good

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