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Fossils on Fossils (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 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 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There were still mammoth when the pyramids were being built.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There are people around right now who know how roast mammoth tastes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Cleopatra lived closer to t-rex than us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Only if we assume they can't be ressurected

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Technically correct, just as yesterday was closer to the formation of the moon than today is.

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

how? cleopatra was born in 69 BC, last trex died around 65 million years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

What i meant is that cleopatra was closer in time to t-rex than we are to t-rex

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

You were born after cleopatra died 🫠🤑👻

Follow me for more Greece facts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Wtf 🤯

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How dare you suggest DinoTrux lied to us!!!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

If gasoline is made from dinosaurs, what did the Dinotrux run on?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

DinoTrux drove the earth for such a long time BP Oil^®^ existed while DinoTrux drove the earth.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Drugs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Jurassic drugs!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

The blood of their enemies!!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

You can tell because non of them has feathers.