Jack Horner: Legendary Paleontologist and Movie Consultant

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner is a hero in both the scientific and film communities. Not only was he one of the first paleontologists to propose that dinosaurs were more closely related to birds, but he was also a consultant on all four Jurassic Park films.

Because of Jack Horner, the filmmakers were able to create a realistic and frightening view of what dinosaurs may have really looked like. With his expertise, the dinosaurs were able to walk, roar, and even eat with precise realism.

Jack Horner was such a renowned scientist that Michael Crichton based his main protagonist Alan Grant after him. In the book version of Jurassic Park, Alan Grant had a beard much like Jack Horner. Jack Horner also had a long standing feud with Robert Bakker, which is alluded to in the book and the film.

When not playing the Hollywood game, Horner teaches at the Montana State University Paleontology department. He is responsible for finding that some dinosaurs cared for their young. For a long time, dinosaurs were regarded as slow-moving, lumbering beasts with no sense of family systems, but Jack Horner proposed that they nurtured their young. This was later proven to be true and launched Jack to the forefront of the paleontology world.

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