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We have fossils of dinosaurs that existed 40,000 years after that one.

• jrowen 1y ago
  Yes, and some dinosaurs are still alive today. We call them birds. The environment of the earth was still radically altered in an instant, and our ancestors were the winners.
  • bryanlarsen 1y ago
    Those were fossils of non-avian dinosaurs.
    • jrowen 1y ago
      Ok I'm really missing your point then. Can you restate it in a way that contradicts something I'm saying?
      • bryanlarsen 1y ago
        I'm saying that the current extinction event is considerably worse and faster than the Cretaceous-Paleogene one.
        • jrowen 1y ago
          Based on the prediction that some significant percentage of life will be extinct decades from now? I don't see how anything that has happened yet in our timeline compares in any way to a massive asteroid impact.