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
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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.
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
I think what we have to do now is re-model dinosaurs.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.