A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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.
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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.
T Rex could not run.
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.
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.
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Historical science is being left in the dust.
