All the evidence says otherwise -- but this idea persists, probably because all the wrongheaded popular entertainment that shows humans and dinosaurs as contemporaries.
But here's the deal: nearly all dinosaurs disappeared suddenly about 65 million years ago, probably due (mostly) to the effects of a huge comet or asteroid hitting the Earth. The first human-like fossils appeared in the fossil record about 6 million years ago. Notice a slight gap there?
The idea of humans and dinosaurs living together in the days of yore is an invention of Hollywood and the publishing industry... and not a very good or logical invention at that.
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