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Most of the facts about the Velociraptor are now well known. This is due to the discovery of several fossils. It lived during the Cretaceous period and became extinct 70 to 80 million years ago. Like the other dinosaurs it likely perished when a comet / asteroid struck the Earth at the time.
Did humans and dinosaurs live at the same time? No, early hominids evolved around 2 million years ago, non-avian dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, thereâs a 63 million year gap between our early ancestors and non-avian dinosaurs.