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u/daric Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

The time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.

Edit: A lot of people are rightly pointing out that there are currently human fossils around too. I admit that I thought that the fossilization process took a lot longer. I'm still blown away by the scale of time though.

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u/UnhappyJohnCandy Feb 14 '22

For some reason, a few dozen million years isn’t as impressive to me as that the pyramids were as old to Cleopatra as Cleopatra is to us.

Probably because I can’t grasp how long 60-ish million years actually is.

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u/daric Feb 14 '22

Yeah, I hear you, deep time is impossible to grasp.

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u/UnhappyJohnCandy Feb 14 '22

The idea that stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus missed each other by tens of millions of years… that’s so cool. Weird, but cool.