A biography for Jack Hornerhasn’t been written yet.
“There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.”
“Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.”
“Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.”
“Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.”
“T Rex could not run.”
“Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.”