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
@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
Omnicidal Attack Sharks are now Shyverns, if you were wondering