American - Scientist | June 15, 1946 -
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.
Jack Horner
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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.
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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.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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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.
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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.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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T Rex could not run.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
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