Jack Horner

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Jack Horner, of the Museum of the Rockies, is one of the more familiar figures in dinosaur paleontology. Enigmatic, rather cantankerous, and the role model for Jurassic Park's Alan Grant, only Robert Bakker can quite match the colorful personality of Horner. Horner, despite the perceptiveness of his work, never finished college, and entered dinosaur science with only a High School diploma.

This notwithstanding, his research on hadrosaurs is now legendary, as they (Horner and his partner Bob Makela) single-handedly demonstrated advanced parental care in some dinosaurs, in addition to mass-herding. Horner has also vociferously argued for endothermy in Dinosauria based on his research.

Unfortunately, Horner is now more recognizable for his pontifications on the ecology of tyrannosaurids, and his notorious hypothesis that Tyrannosaurus rex was a consumate scavenger, and not the archetypical predator.

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