> It's hard to truly grok just how long the dinosaurs were around. One of the crazier things I've heard recently is that the time between the present and the T

> It's hard to truly grok just how long the dinosaurs were around. One of the crazier things I've heard recently is that the time between the present and the Tyrannosaurus Rex [1] (68-66 million years) is less than the time between the T-Rex and the Brontosaurus [2] (156-147 million years ago, or 79 million years before the T-Rex). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus