Argument Quote by Jack Horner

“Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.”

Jack Horner

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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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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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