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
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
I like the broken up ones, I like to saw holes in them and look inside of them, ... When it comes to science, putting up a skeleton and just looking at it just doesn't do anything for me. I want to know something about that dinosaur.
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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.
Bigger is not always better. This one has good size and grasping arms. You start getting them too big, and they get pretty clunky.
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
The whole thing is just totally a misunderstanding.
The Rudyard project is actually a satellite thing for the Museum of the Rockies. We're calling it the Rudyard field station, and we're lending them lots and lots of specimens and all kinds of things.
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 usually work in Montana, that's where I was born and raised and that's where there are lots of places to look, ... Right now I'm looking for animals like Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Some years ago the Smithsonian wanted a T-rex for its new dinosaur hall,
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.