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

    Asked by Sammy to Hayley, Jimi on 18 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 18 Mar 2016:


      Unfortunately no. But birds and dinosaurs lived happily (sometimes not so happily!) together. The dinosaurs were sadly gone before we turned up! Without the dinosaurs going though, we probably wouldn’t be here today! Thank you dinosaurs!

    • Photo: Jimi Wills

      Jimi Wills answered on 18 Mar 2016:


      Not exactly…

      Dinosuars were large animals that dominated the earth. The only mammals around then were small mammals… including our ancestors.

      We currently think that all the dinosaurs were extinct before humans evolved. But we could be wrong.

      But often people talk about crocodiles and aligators being “living dinosaurs”, because they are large and lived at the same time as other dinosaurs.

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