Warp wrote:

>   I'm not exactly sure what you wanted to achieve with that search.
> Birds evolved from theropods, which is a suborder of dinosaurs. Not all
> dinosaurs were theropods, hence there are many "non-avian dinosaurs".

A non-avian dinosaur is a dinosaur which is not a bird.
Using that word combination only makes sense when the author
feels using the term dinosaur alone might include birds. So,
it is a measure of how many people think this.

In contrast, "non-avian monkey" gives no results ;)

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