New Feathered Dinosaur!

you have interesting ideas, but not stupid ones. don't worry about "excommunication"

the only example of "excommunication"/ extreme ridicule I know of in paleontology are those clowns from oregon state university (Ruben et al.); you too would be severely ridiculed if you said that the feathers on sinosauropteryx's feather were from a bird under the fossil XD

or Archaeopteryx was a cold blooded animal. (wtf?)

or that Respiratory turbinals are the ONLY requirement for endothermy, etc.

Many millions of years ago

"Gary..Gary, you fell out of the tree and landed on me...Gary?"

Rick the bird was too traumatised to push Gary's body off him and starved to death. It all makes sense

Hehe

+1

No, I think the evidence firmly points to therapods at least being the ANCESTORS of birds. But, from my own view of some things, I put it more in the mammal like reptiles/synapsids where while there is a grey area, you'd be justified in separating the true birds from the dinosaurs. I base this partly on the way dinosaur and bird bodies, while similar, were clearly designed for different functions

Just my own, very uninformed opinion,.

I would also say that while I think the evidence is pretty conclusive as to the link, I don't agree with the practice of looking at modern day birds when trying to figure out behaviour (eg, looking at that well known Tenotosaurus with Deinonychus find and determining the dromaeosaur behaviour based on bird behaviour) given I think behaviour's main controls are sex and food. Therapods occupied a very different niche to all flying and probably all/most ground birds today, and their habits would be

again, in my very uninformed opinion (not being modest, I'm just dense) controlled by the advantage for their lifestyle than their relatives. Eg, some dismiss the concept of pack behaviour based on comparison with modern birds. But, no bird would fill the niche of medium sized major ground carnivore which hunts prey larger than itself, generally. And since pack behaviour can be primarily instinctual, a large brain would not be an automatic indicator. Just a thought or five ^_^

Ahh, so you place birds as a sister taxon to the bird like therapods instead of nested firmly within them?

Yes, pretty much. You say in one line what I not say in many

interesting idea you have.. very interesting.

interesting ideas.