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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
I did say, "sapient". Developing human level intelligence would require too much evolutionary adjustment to lead to anything much like prehistoric dinosaur appearance.
But I certainly agree with everything else you wrote.
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My basic point was that even without sapience, it has been a very long time and the lineage has changed dramatically. They're still bipedal, many have the same body plan, but (EDIT for incomplete thought) a lot of other details have changed. Going for sapience would make it even more extreme than T-Rex -> Penguin or T-Rex -> Flamingo.
As an aside, the thing I'm most concerned about with the idea of sapient dinosaurs is that the most likely group to develop sapience is also the one that was eliminating digits - they have a shortage of manipulators to work with. Parrots seem to have done the best with the body plan in that regard.