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But ChatGPT says this

Short answer: no, it isn’t accurate, at least not in the way the phrase is usually understood.

Here’s the careful breakdown.

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What is accurate

• Birds are dinosaurs.

In modern cladistics, birds (Aves) are nested within Theropoda, which is within Dinosauria. That makes birds avian dinosaurs, and dinosaurs as a broader group are not fully extinct.

That part is solid and widely accepted.

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What is not accurate

• “Non-avian dinosaurs exist today” is false by definition.

“Non-avian dinosaurs” is a term created specifically to refer to dinosaurs that are not birds—i.e., Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, etc. That group went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous (~66 million years ago).

If a dinosaur lineage survived into the present, it is, by definition, avian.

So saying “non-avian dinosaurs exist today” is like saying “bachelors who are married exist today.” It collapses its own categories.

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Where the confusion comes from

This claim usually arises from one of three things:

1. Rhetorical oversimplification

People mean:

“Dinosaurs didn’t all go extinct; birds are their descendants.”

But they phrase it sloppily.

2. Equivocation on ‘dinosaur’

Some people shift between:

• Phylogenetic meaning (birds are dinosaurs)

• Colloquial meaning (dinosaurs = big extinct reptiles)

Switching meanings mid-sentence creates the illusion of a paradox.

3. Anti-creationist or pop-science rhetoric

The phrase is sometimes used as a “gotcha” to sound counterintuitive or clever, rather than precise.

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The precise, correct way to say it

Any of these are accurate:

• “Dinosaurs are not entirely extinct; birds are living dinosaurs.”

• “All living dinosaurs are birds.”

• “Non-avian dinosaurs are extinct; avian dinosaurs survived.”

And this is not accurate:

• “Non-avian dinosaurs exist today.”

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Bottom line

You’re right to be skeptical. The statement is technically incorrect, even though it’s often gesturing toward a real scientific insight. Precision matters here, and the common phrasing fails that test.

This is the least accurate bot I've ever used!!!