True or False: the earliest human beings lived at the same time as the dinosaurs ?
FALSE. The truth is that the dinosaurs had been dead for over a week before the first human can along, probably in the form of Bob Dole. Yet most Americans firmly believe that humans and dinosaurs once co-existed. This misconception arose from the mayn absurdly inaccurate fictional depictions of caveman life, such a the TV cartoon show "The Flintstones," in which the Flintstones own a pet dinosaur named Dino. But paleontologists, who can determine the age of fossils with a high degree of accuracy using a technique
called 'carbon dating', have known for years that 'Dino' is actually another
character wearing a costume. 'We think it's Barney', the paleontologists
announced recently, 'but we can't say for sure until we get another government
grant.
