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.

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      huh??? no i mean like via dna or something, i mean we all share a common ancestor and like a 50th cousin so i guess maybe

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        Not my area, but I think you need to go back much further than the dinosaurs for a common ancestor. I’m sure someone with actual knowledge will educate us in the comments.

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          dang much further?? ok thanks, well i suppose it makes sense, but i was talking about like some human features that are dino like too

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            Humans and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, but it’s further up the tree than the dinosaurs. Mammals broke off from the reptile tree so whenever that split happened, that’s who you’re looking for. If you want to follow this train of thought further, we are all from the same primordial soup of bacteria. You me the birds, the bees, the bears, all of it.