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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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... →
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and... →
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... →
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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.
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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