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The title given is from Newsround, a BBC news programme aimed at kids, and it's a click-bait as they come.
The author says that yes, a new study shows that an early human ancestor was indeed alive at the same time as the dinosaurs!
Now my point about this may sound picky but, isn't this just a tautology? Every living thing today had ancestors alive during the same period as the dinosaurs - it could hardly be otherwise! For something explicitly aimed at kids I worry that this could be misleading them into thinking that early humans were contemporaries with dinosaurs, and a much more accurate headline would have highlighted the fact that the study that the article quotes focuses only on placental mammals. Throwing humans into the equation is at best superfluous and at worst, deeply misleading.
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We still live alongside dinosaurs, but we used to, too