About how much time are we talkin here?

Also makes you wonder what fossils they mean, of the same species or then already extinct ones.

Because according to a quick Wikipedia search the oldest hominid fossils (?) are something like 7 millions years old

That's much much shorter than dinosaurs where around but hey " hominins are around long enough to unearth hominin fossils"!

I said I'm sorry. But if you're going to let your T-Rex out at night you should at least put a reflective collar on it.

This is the comparison I was looking for. It’s great to explain that media shows them together but untrue, it is a totally different idea to explain the staggering time difference between the two.

You made me scroll up to the picture again, looking for a T-Rex or a car

And people mocked me for my human-tyrannosaur slashfic on ao3. Well, who's laughing now?

That's what the XKCD that was posted says. Mostly.

How dare you suggest DinoTrux lied to us!!!

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)

There's always a relevant xkcd

To be fair, things can fossilise very quickly given ideal conditions. Still dinosaurs reigned for a lot more time than mammals and frankly nature is still feeling the loss in certain ways.

https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/

Also, my favourite fact is we know almost nothing about dinosaurs from jungles and mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from wetland and oceanic creatures because of the way fossils are formed.

Forty-one?! You're practically a fossil!

guzzles water

Second relevant xkcd of the comments https://what-if.xkcd.com/74/