Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet… — Jack Horner Copy Share
I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs… — Jack Horner Copy Share
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner Copy Share
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner Copy Share
The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that… — Jack Horner Copy Share
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… — Jack Horner Copy Share
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. — Jack Horner Copy Share
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs… — Jack Horner Copy Share
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone. — Jack Horner Copy Share
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative. — Jack Horner Copy Share
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. — Jack Horner Copy Share
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and… — Jack Horner Copy Share
