HAHA, don't so hard on yourself, age is but number
Ah yes, the transitional species to birds It's funny, in Jurassic Park, Dr. Grant's ideas were laughed at, now it turns out he was more right than could be imagined.
Cloning is but unfortunately it's not possible to clone a dinosaur, DNA has a half life like radioactive elements and detiriates far too quickly, the lonest DNA could survive for is 6.8 million years if kept cold enough Our only hope is if we can reconstruct the entire sequence from scratch
Ah yes, the transitional species to birds