Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
Humans knew about dinosaurs because they lived right next to each other. And whenever a dinosaur would rear its ugly head over the humans, you know, in their air space. Trade missions and such as.