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
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
I think what we have to do now is re-model dinosaurs.
Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
Historical science is being left in the dust.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
Our new media center will make the Museum of the Rockies one of the premier dinosaur museums in the country. People will be able to come to our museum and watch us work in the field.
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.