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
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.
That worked great. The footage went out all over the world.
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.
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.
The whole thing is just totally a misunderstanding.
Bigger is not always better. This one has good size and grasping arms. You start getting them too big, and they get pretty clunky.
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.
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.
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.
I was born and raised in Montana, so it's certainly an honor for me to be the state paleontologist. I take the honor very seriously. More than anything, it's an honor to be involved in the statewide education of kids.
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.
I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.