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Fossils on Fossils (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

This is only mind blowing because popular media likes to show every dinosaur at once. Like there's a lot of things depicting stegosaurus fighting T-Rex; but these animals never would have met. They're from entirely different periods.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

We live closer to the time of T-Rex than T-Rex lived to the time of Stegosaurus.

67 million years separate us from T-Rex.
83 million years separate T-Rex from Stegosaurus. (150 million years between us and Stegosaurus)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (10 children)

on a similar note: When cleopatra lived, the pyramids were already ancient

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There were still mammoth when the pyramids were being built.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This makes me wonder if there is any possibility that someone who worked on the pyramids knew what roast mammoth tasted like. I suspect the possibility is 0 due to geography, but maybe someone got sick of being cold and happened to be an architect?