John Robert Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for describing Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

Sep 26, 2015 · Jack Horner discovered that dinosaurs cared for their young, and some were social animals nesting in colonies. A paleontologist, he specializes in researching dinosaur behavior and growth; he has accumulated evidence that many named species of dinosaur are actually immature versions of other dinosaur species: he believes up to a third of named

Dec 2, 2014 · As fantastical as the Jurassic Park movies are, there’s a real scientist behind the franchise – Jack Horner, a paleontologist at Museum of the Rockies, who not only served as scientific...

Jack Horner: An Intellectual Autobiography. John R. "Jack" Horner Regents Professor of Paleontology MSU-Bozeman (with Celeste Horner) Breakthrough event. As a youth, I was an introvert. I was extremely shy and deathly afraid of having …

Nov 19, 2019 · Horner's main claim to fame was his discovery, in the 1970s, of the extensive nesting grounds of a North American hadrosaur, which he named Maiasaura ("good mother lizard"). These fossilized eggs and burrows gave paleontologists an unusually detailed glimpse of the family life of duck-billed dinosaurs.

Jack Horner turned a childhood passion for fossil hunting into a career as a world-renowned paleontologist. During the mid-1970s, Horner and a colleague discovered in Montana the first dinosaur eggs and embryos ever found in the Western Hemisphere.

Apr 4, 2008 · In the 25 years since he accepted the challenge, Horner has made an international name and solidly placed his domain at the forefront of the world’s greatest natural history museums in the field of paleontology.

Jack Horner. Like many six-year-olds, Jack Horner had a fascination with dinosaurs. Unlike many kids his age, however, he found a real fossil behind his house. That discovery sparked a lifelong interest in paleontology.

Paleontologist Jack Horner discovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos.

John R. "Jack" Horner is an American paleontologist. He discovered and named Maiasaura. He also showed for the first time that some dinosaurs cared for their young. Horner also served as the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films. [1] [2] He served in the Vietnam War.