• Question: Did dinosaurs and humans ever exist at the same time?

    Asked by Farra to Anna, Hayley, Iain, Rebecca on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      No, they didn’t. Dinosaurs died out 65 million years before the first humans appeared 🙂

    • Photo: Iain Bethune

      Iain Bethune answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      We humans are relatively recent. Homo Sapiens – biologically modern humans – have only been around for 100,000 years or so! Thinking about these really long time periods is called ‘Deep Time’ by geologists, and it makes my head spin.

      To help, you can try putting the whole history of the Earth into a 1-year’s calendar: http://astrosociety.org/edu/astro/act2/H2_Cosmic_Calendar.pdf

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