We all know that Yoshi is a dinosaur, right? I mean, even his Wikipedia article states he is a “fictional Dinosaur”, but when I think of Yoshi, I don’t think of dinosaur, I think of just - Yoshi. It’s like over time, Yoshi has lost his Dinosaur image.

No, I retract that last statement. I don’t think that he was EVER a dinosaur to me. When I was a kid playing Super Mario World, I never said in my head, “I wish that I had a Yoshi Dinosaur to ride,” I always just said “I wish I had a real life Yoshi”. Like every other being in the Super Mario universe, he is his own thing.

You don’t call a Goomba a dog, or a Shy-Guy a hamster (save the Koopas, they’re turtles), you would call Yoshi a Yoshi.

Does this shortblog really make that much sense to you guys? Is Yoshi a dinosaur in your eyes, or will he alway be considered a part of the Yoshi species?