Jack Horner
Jack Horner
John R. "Jack" Horneris a non-degree holding American paleontologist who discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. He is one of the best-known paleontologists in the World. In addition to his many paleontological discoveries, Horner served as the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films, had a cameo appearance in Jurassic World, and even served as partial inspiration for one of the lead characters, Dr. Alan Grant. He studied...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 June 1946
CityShelby, MT
CountryUnited States of America
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
It's a good thing not very many people were watching,
The people in Rudyard are very, very friendly, and I think they very much enjoy having us there and we just have a generally good time there.
where it actually goes from land into the water.
We gave them a specimen. Unfortunately, it was just one leg, ... Now they want more.
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.