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Oops, a bit long apparently. That last part was: Dinosaur feathers are a complex issue. Considering we've found scales on birds are derived from feathers, it's a bit simplistic to look at a scale impression from a dinosaur and come to the conclusion it could not have had a feathered ancestor.

I'm not really an expert, eh. I just saw that article and you came to mind. If we do find strong evidence that most dinosaurs were feathered we might be able to stop thinking of birds as a class of its own. They're just reptiles.

Well, that leads into an interesting discussion of how outdated Linnaean taxonomy is. Because it's true that birds should be reptiles, but similarly, it's true that reptiles should be amphibians, and amphibians (and by extension, reptiles, birds, and mammals) are all fish. This is why, more recently, scientists prefer to use a different system called cladistics, which forms rankless nested groups based on shared common ancestors.