Famous Prehistoric Animals That Weren’t Actually Dinosaurs

So better stop calling them that way…

Dimetrodon skeleton in Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C / Jeff Kubina / Wikimedia Commons.

Most people often use the word ‘dinosaur’ as a catch-all term to describe any sort of extinct, large, or bizarre, reptilian-like animal. That’s unfortunate since Dinosauria is a scientific term with a strict meaning and well-defined membership. Thanks to common misconceptions generated by popular…