If you looked inside a T. rex mouth, you’d see some 12-inch teeth. That’s longer than my tail!

Aaron Blackwell.
Blackwell

I asked my friend Aaron Blackwell if dinosaurs used those big chompers on humans. He’s an anthropologist who studies human biology at Washington State University. He told me dinosaurs and humans didn’t live at the same time.

“Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago—before there were even primates,” Blackwell said. “So, they could never have eaten a human or even a monkey.”

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