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. — 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 characteristics we see in birds. — 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 Image
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 Image
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — 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 it that… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
