Occupation: Paleontologist Birth: March 24, 1945
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest..
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado..
Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil..
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life..
Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts..
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also..
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs..
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS..
Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod..
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea f….
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and ….
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator..
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad thin….
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull..
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum..
Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time..
I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic..
In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded..
Feathers predate birds..
It’s very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs — dinosaurs are nature’s Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It’s….
The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate e….