The Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to modern humans than to the Stegosaurus.
NOT BSTOTAL BS
NOT BS — Verdict: True
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The Short Version
This claim is true and well-established in paleontology. Stegosaurus lived ~150 million years ago, while T. rex lived ~68–66 million years ago — a gap of ~80–84 million years. T. rex went extinct ~66 million years ago, and modern humans appeared ~300,000 years ago — a gap of ~66 million years. Since 66 million years is less than 80–84 million years, T. rex indeed lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus. Multiple authoritative sources, including USGS and the Natural History Museum, confirm this.
Caveats
The claim's conclusion holds regardless of whether 'modern humans' refers to Homo sapiens (~300,000 years ago) or earlier hominids (~1–2 million years ago) — the math still works.
T. rex existed over a range (~80–66 million years ago), not at a single point in time, but even using the most conservative figures the claim remains true.