John R. Horner

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Jack Horner
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Horner in 2015
وُلِدَ
John Robert Horner

15 يونيو 1946 (العمر 79 سنة)
Shelby, Montana, U.S.
المدرسة الأمUniversity of Montana
عـُرِف بـ
  • Discovery of dinosaur nesting behavior and parental care
    (Maiasaura)
  • Dinosaur ontogeny and taxonomy research
  • Consultant for Jurassic Park films
الزوج
  • Virginia Lee Seacotte (1972-1982)
  • Joann Katherine Raffelson (1986-1994)
  • Celeste Claire Roach (1995-2005)
  • Vanessa Weaver (2012-2016)
الأنجال1 (Jason James Horner, from Lee Seacotte)
الجوائز
السيرة العلمية
المجالاتPaleontology
الهيئات
  • Princeton University (1975-1982)
  • Museum of the Rockies (1982-2016)
  • Montana State University (1982-2016)
  • Chapman University (2016-2026)
  • Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (2016-present)

John Robert Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist who alongside fellow paleontologist Bob Makela described Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some non-avian dinosaurs cared for their young. In addition to his paleontological discoveries, Horner served as the technical advisor for the first five Jurassic Park films,[1] had a cameo appearance in Jurassic World,[2] and served as a partial inspiration for one of the lead characters of the franchise, Dr. Alan Grant.[3][4]

Horner studied at the University of Montana, although he did not complete his degree due to undiagnosed dyslexia, and was awarded a Doctorate in Science honoris causa. He retired from Montana State University on July 1, 2016, although he claims to have been pushed out of the Museum of the Rockies after having married an undergraduate student 46 years his junior[5][6] and then taught as a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University.[7][8] In 2026, his connections with Jeffrey Epstein attracted controversy[9][10] and in February 2026 his employment with Chapman University ended.[11]

Biography

Horner was born and raised in Shelby, Montana on June 15, 1946 from John Horner, the owner of a sand-and-gravel business, and Miriam Horner[12][13][14] (née Whitted[15]). He has a brother, Jim Horner, and a younger sister, Rosemary Horner. From an early age, Horner was called "Jack" by everyone.[12] He was 8 years old when he found his first dinosaur bone.[16][12]

Due to severe dyslexia (though he didn't learn about his condition until 1976, when he was already working at Princeton University[15]) he struggled all along his high school cycle at Shelby High School[17] but managed to graduate in 1964. The same year, he enroled at the University of Montana where he majored in geology and zoology, but once again he encountered the same problems when trying to read and learn. He flunked his first year at the university so he decided to withdraw his college studies and, instead, enlist with the Marines. Horner served in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1968[12] and immediately after his release from the military he applied again at the University of Montana, yet struggling again with the same difficulties. Not knowing that he had dyslexia, he stuck to his obstinacy in becoming a paleontologist and, all in all, between 1964 and 1973, he submitted up to seven different applications at the university.[12] In 1973 he definitely abandoned his tertiary-education studies, finally accepting to join back his father and his brother at the sand-and-gravel business in Shelby. Nevertheless, Horner didn't drop his passion for paleontology and regularly sent letters to scientific institutions, even twice, until he was admitted as preparator at Princeton University (New Jersey) in 1975.[12][15]

Horner did not complete his bachelor's degree but he did complete a senior thesis on the fauna of the Bear Gulch Limestone, one of the most famous Mississippian lagerstätten (exceptionally preserved fossil sites) in the world, located in Montana. In the late 1970s Princeton was closing its paleontology department so Horner joined the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for a few years[12] before being named Curator of Paleontology at the Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies in 1982. The University of Montana awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Science in 1986. Also in 1986, he was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.[18] In 1989 Horner was granted with the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award for his 1988 book Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs.[12] In 1993, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[19]

Reconstructed cast by Horner of a Maiasaura emerging from its egg

In Montana during the late 1970s, Horner and his research partner Bob Makela discovered a colonial nesting site of a new dinosaur genus which they named Maiasaura, or "Good Mother Lizard". The dinosaur bones, originating from a juvenile, were first discovered[20] by Marion Brandvold. Horner then studied the bones, and at first, there was a refusal to return the bones to Brandvold.[21][22] It turned out that the discovered site also contained the first non-avian dinosaur eggs ever discovered in the Western Hemisphere, the first dinosaur embryos, and settled questions of whether some dinosaurs were social, built nests and cared for their young. Because of the important quantity of dinosaur eggs and eggshell pieces it contained, the site ended up by earning the name of "Egg Mountain", near Choteau, Montana.[23][24] The discovery established Horner's career. He has named several other species of dinosaur (including Orodromeus makelai, in memory of his late friend Bob Makela, who had died in a car accident in 1987[25]) and has had three named after himself: Achelousaurus horneri, Anasazisaurus horneri, and Daspletosaurus horneri.[26]

Throughout his career, Horner has been employed by a number of scientific institutions, mainly museums and universities, and he has extensively collaborated with them. At the time of his first professional scientific employment, Horner already had years of experience prospecting for fossiliferous sites with his friend Bob Makela since the mid 1960s.[27] Though not having yet acquired his degree as a student at the University of Montana, he was hired as preparator at Princeton University (New Jersey) in 1975.[12] In 1982, Horner left Princeton for the Montana State University (MSU) and the Museum of the Rockies (MOR), where he worked both as a curator and a teacher. He left the MSU and the Museum on 30 June 2016 after more than 33 years within the institution.[28] For ten years from 2016[7] to 2026[11] he taught as a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in Orange, California. In 2016, following a proposal by the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington,[29] Horner was hired as a research associate at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture which is the natural history museum of the University, where he still works today.

Within the paleontological community, Horner is best known for his work on dinosaur growth research. He has published numerous articles in collaboration with Berkeley paleontologist Kevin Padian, and French dinosaur histologist Armand de Ricqlès, on the growth of dinosaurs using growth series. This usually involves leg bones in graduated sizes from different individuals ranging in age from embryos to adults. Horner also revitalized the contested theory that Tyrannosaurus rex was an obligate scavenger, rather than a predatory killer. While this theory has been widely discussed by the popular press, it has never been a major research focus for Horner. He claimed that he never published the scavenger hypothesis in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, stating that it was mainly a tool for him to teach a popular audience, particularly children, of the dangers of making assumptions in science (such as assuming T. rex was a hunter) without using evidence.[30] In 2000, teams led by Horner discovered five specimens of T. rex and three more the following summer, including one larger than the specimen nicknamed "Sue". The new fossil was 10% larger than other specimens and estimated to weigh 10–13 tons in life.[3] The Museum of the Rockies, as the result of continuing fieldwork, now exhibits the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collection in the world.

Horner has published over 100 professional papers, twelve books including Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky;[31] the children's book Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up;[32] a non-fiction book on dinosaurs from Montana, Dinosaur Lives;[33] and numerous articles. He was also a part of a 2005 discovery of soft tissue in a T. rex fossil. Horner was the Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, the Regent's Professor of Paleontology, adjunct curator at the National Museum of Natural History, and taught at the Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Over the years he has advised people who have gone on to be leading experts in paleontology, such as Mary Higby Schweitzer, Greg Erickson, Kristi Curry-Rogers, and David J. Varricchio. Horner was awarded an honorary doctorate by Pennsylvania State University in 2006 in recognition of his work.

In 2003, Horner discovered a fossilized tyrannosaur leg bone from which paleontologist Mary Higby Schweitzer was able to retrieve proteins in 2007.[34]

In 2006 and onwards, Horner has also studied the developmental biology of the so-called "parrot-like dinosaurs" (of the Psittacosauridae family), based on 67 individuals discovered all together at the same site in Mongolia.[35][36]

In 2009, the National Geographic Society released a documentary entitled "Dinosaurs Decoded", which reviews Horner's research into juvenile dinosaurs. He suggests that juvenile dinosaurs looked sufficiently different from adults, and that they have sometimes been mistaken for separate species. The program examines specific changes that occurred as dinosaurs aged and speculates on why the changes were necessary. Horner's research on the topic has gone as far as eliminating several "sub-species" of Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. Horner also believes that if his research were to continue as much as a third of known dinosaurs would be classified under an existing species.[37]

On November 2, 2013, Horner was awarded the Romer-Simpson Medal, the highest honor a paleontologist can receive from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.[38]

On his retirement from Montana State University on July 1, 2016, the MacMillan Foundation honored Horner for his work with a $3 million endowment for the John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology Chair for the Museum of the Rockies/ Montana State University - funding the work of his Paleontology successors in perpetuity.[39]

In popular culture, Horner is the subject of the children's book, Jack Horner, Dinosaur Hunter! written by Sophia Gholz, illustrated by Dave Shephard, and[40][41] published by Sleeping Bear Press. The book, which has been translated into French,[42] chronicles the life of Horner, from a child in Montana to an adult on the set of Jurassic Park, and discusses Horner's scientific contributions as well as navigating life with a reading disability. Horner is also the subject of the 1994 biographical book Jack Horner: Living With Dinosaurs (Science Superstars), authored by Don Lessem and Janet Hamlin.[43]

Build a Dinosaur Project

Horner with a bird skeleton at an event in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.

Horner's 2009 book, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever,[44] describes his plan to recreate a dinosaur by genetically "nudging" the DNA of a chicken.[45] Horner's idea for the project came from an early script for the film Jurassic World.[46] He had been planning the book as early as June 2005;[47] it was originally planned to be released simultaneously with Jurassic World as a scientific companion volume.[48]

In 2011, Horner pursued the project to develop the animal, which he describes as a "chickenosaurus", with a team of geneticists.[49][50][51] By November 2014, Horner and his team had conducted some of the earliest research into the embryonic development of tails. Such research may ultimately lead to new treatments for people with spinal disorders. Research into the mesenchyme tissue of chicken embryos, which direct the growth of teeth, may also aid in the treatment of human sarcomas. George Lucas had funded most of the project's costs up to that point, while an additional $5 million was needed. Horner expected to have a living dinosaur within 10 years.[52] In 2026, released emails from the Epstein files revealed that Horner had discussed the project with Jeffrey Epstein in 2012, and that Epstein had expressed interest in funding the project.[9][10]

In 2015, an independent group of scientists reported that they had found a way to turn the beaks of chicken embryos back into dinosaur-like snouts, by reverse genetic engineering,[53] and University of Chile geneticists have produced embryos with dinosaur-like leg and foot anatomy including the fibula full-length and reaching the ankle.[54][55]

Personal life

Jack Horner has been married four times throughout his life. On March 30, 1972 he married his first wife, Virginia Lee Seacotte, with whom he has a son, Jason James Horner. After divorcing from Seacotte in 1982, he married Joann Katherine Raffelson on October 3, 1986, from whom he divorced in 1994. Less than a year after his divorce from Raffelson, Horner married Celeste Claire Roach on January 21, 1995. Their marriage lasted ten years until they divorced in 2005.[12] In Las Vegas on January 15, 2012, 65-year-old Horner married Vanessa Weaver, a 19-year-old Montana State University undergraduate paleontology student and volunteer in his lab. The couple had divorced by August 2016, but remained good friends.[5][6]

Appearance in the Epstein files

In 2026, it was revealed that Horner appears in Epstein files. According to these records, Horner visited a property owned by Jeffrey Epstein in New Mexico in 2012 and exchanged several emails with him thereafter. These messages contain expressions of thanks for hospitality received and suggest a possible financial or logistical support for some of Horner's scientific projects.[9][10]

Popular science books by Jack Horner

  • Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs (1988, with James Gorman, Workman Publishing)
  • The Complete T. Rex: How Stunning New Discoveries Are Changing Our Understanding of the World's Most Famous Dinosaur (1993, with Don Lessem, Simon & Schuster)
  • Dinosaur Eggs and Babies (1994, with Kenneth Carpenter and Karl F. Hirsch, Cambridge University Press)
  • Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Remarkable Story of the Discovery of the First Complete Tyrannosaurus rex Ever Found (1995, with Don Lessem, Knopf Books for Young Readers)
  • Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga (1998, with Edwin Dobb, Harcourt)
  • Dinosaurs: Under the Big Sky (2001, Mountain Press)
  • How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever (2009, with James Gorman, Dutton Adult)
  • Dinosaurs of Montana (2025, with Raymond R. Rogers, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, illustrations by Doug Henderson)

Children's books by Jack Horner

  • Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up (1985, with James Gorman and Jeri D. Walton, published by the Museum of the Rockies, illustrations by Doug Henderson)
  • Digging Up Dinosaurs (2007, Farcountry Press, illustrations by Robert Rath and Phil Wilson)
  • Lily and Maia: A Dinosaur Adventure (2023, Horner Science Group, illustrations by Grace Hattrup)

Novels by Jack Horner

  • Dinosaur Valley (2025, with Julian Michael Carver, Pteranodon Press)[56]

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