Did humans and non-bird dinosaurs ever coexist?

No. Non-bird dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago. Modern humans appeared about 300,000 years ago. The gap between them is over 65 million years.

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Oligocene to Pleistocene

34-0.01 million years ago

The Oligocene through Pleistocene spans most of the age of mammals, covering the evolution of modern animal groups through the Ice Ages and right up to the edge of recorded human history.

Fun Facts

✓This interval covers the evolution of horses, elephants, whales, great apes, and eventually early humans.
✓The Pleistocene ended about 11,700 years ago with the last major ice age.
✓Woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and giant ground sloths all lived during the Pleistocene.

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