Dinosaurs Quote by Jack Horner

“Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'”

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I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs…

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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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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…

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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…

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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

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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…

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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

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T Rex could not run.

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I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

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I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was a kid.

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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

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