How long did the T. Rex roam the earth before extinction banged its gong?
Probably a few thousand or a few tens of thousands of years. Last summer, scientists had to break a trex leg bone in half to get it on a small helicopter, and this is what they found inside the thing:
MSNBC/Reuters version of the story.
Anybody who figures that stuff is 70 million years old is basically deluded.
I believe the latest discoveries have pushed it back to about 70MYA (70MYA-65MYA = 5MY)....Immediately before then you have Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus, basically smaller relatives...