Ancient Raptor Civilization

[Lucanus]

Parental care has never been observed in reptiles, with the possible exception of birds who need to teach their offspring how to fly, but lack the limbs necessary to the creation of a human-like civilization.

Well there you go
Take that, but consider a lineage which hasn't evolved real wings, thus keeping the fingers free to work.

I'm not a paleontologist obviously, but I've heard several talk who have adapted the convention "birds are dinosaurs".

The problem with this is that it is thought that birds have developed parental care as a result of their feathery flappy flight. Most other dinosaurs simply dumped their eggs as casually as shit to subsequently bury them to protect them from predators, and that was it.

Most of the bipedal dinosaurs we know of were carnivorous and used their 'hands' mostly for their long sharp claws, which kept them from needing -let alone being able to- produce tools. Our ability with hands comes from the fact that they were originally adapted to grasping branches and in fact our most common tools are just like that: sticks with something on them.

Not to mention lonely times. I'm very good with my hands.