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if i live in a place that used to be full of almost all dinosaurs, does that mean i could have dinosaur heritage??

i was thinking about it and it does make sense yep

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  • No, for a couple of different reasons:

    1. Mammals diverged from reptiles approximately 325 million years ago during the Carboniferous period.

    So your potential dinosaur heritage has nothing to do with where you live now.

    Carboniferous Earth:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

    1. Dinosaurs wouldn't evolve until 230 million years ago. About 100 million years after mammals had already split off from the reptile family tree.

    So there's no chance you have any dinosaur DNA. Our family and their famlly evolved long after the split had already happened.

    • dang... i think that is a very long time ago in human terms but still it's amazing how fast time flies, well at least we got cool dino-like reptiles. oh well thanks!!

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