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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

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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 sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

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Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

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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 they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.

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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

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We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.

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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 15th, 1946

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