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.
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.
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'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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.
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Historical science is being left in the dust.
