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
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
Bigger is not always better. This one has good size and grasping arms. You start getting them too big, and they get pretty clunky.
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.
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.
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.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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.
I think what we have to do now is re-model dinosaurs.
That worked great. The footage went out all over the world.
That's what I do -- my job is to walk, ... I just walk and walk and walk and I've walked in Romania, Mongolia, Tanzania -- all these places to find dinosaurs.
'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.
Mary, a former student of mine, and I just broke bones up, dug things out of them and just destroyed bones, and she's very good at that, ... Mary's discoveries produced what appeared to be blood tissues and red blood cells, very similar to what we see in modern day ostriches.