Zitat des Tages von Jack Horner:
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
T Rex could not run.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.
