What is the difference between a dragon and a dinosaur?

The dragon is a divine animal in Chinese myths and legends, as the longest of all scales. Commonly used to symbolize auspiciousness, is one of the most representative of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Dragon's image of the most basic features are "nine like": "horns like deer, head like camel, eyes like rabbit, neck like snake, belly like mirage, scales like fish, claws like eagle, palm like tiger, ear like cattle. Is a collection of multiple animals into a divine creature. Dragon as the Chinese ancient people on a variety of animals and the fusion of celestial phenomena to create a god, the essence of the ancestors of the natural forces of the apotheosis and sublimation. It is widely believed that the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, a spiritual symbol with powerful ability, the inheritance and symbol of excellent history and culture, the carrier of faith and the emotional bond of national unity.

And dinosaurs are the diverse and dominant terrestrial vertebrates that appeared in the Mesozoic era. The word "dinosaur" is a biologist's translation of the English Dinosauria, the "horrible lizard", not the "dragon" in traditional Chinese culture. Dinosaurs dominated the global terrestrial ecosystem for more than 160 million years. Dinosaurs first appeared in the late Triassic period, 230 million years ago, and emerged from the extinction of the Great Dinosauria in the late Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago, when the end of the Cretaceous extinction event occurred. The fossil of the first bird, discovered in 1861, bears a striking resemblance to the fossil of the Maximosaurus, the difference being that the fossil of the first bird has traces of feathers, which suggests that the bird may have descended from the dinosaurs.

Since the 1970s, many studies have suggested that modern birds are most likely the direct descendants of dinosaurs of the theropod suborder K dinosaurs. Most scientists regard birds as the only dinosaurs to have survived to the present day, while a few have even argued that they should be categorized within the same order.