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ask-emoripals · 10 months

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What would you do with a million dollars?

🎹: Make a cat cafe business with Hero as my lovely husband who visits daily to drink coffee!

🔪: Find a way to pet tigers without dying.

⭐️: Save up on the money and when I have enough, fund treatment for my mom’s alcoholism and to support me and my dads house. :|

🪴: Get therapy for my weed addiction, and buy a new camera.

🏀: Move out of that fucked up house with my baby sis and Sunny.

📖: Support Sally and her future, as I am worried they’ll neglect her as they did Kel.

🦖: Find a way to revive dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals. Either that or find a way to destroy Jack Horner’s wealth! >:(

🖌️: Buy art supplies and not starve as an artist.

🦈: Make an actually USABLE submarine!

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pixel-dinosaurs-daily · 1 year

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achelousaurus horneri - centrosaurine - late cretaceous discovered by the lovely jack horner, this intimidating ceratopsid lady has Quite the eyebrows. she was part of a study relating to the debate of thermoregulation in dinosaurs- whether they could generate heat or not, like current avian dinosaurs and mammals. by analyzing oxygen isotopes in the fossils of dinosaurs found in the two medicine formation, paleontologists could pinpoint seasonal variations in body temperature! they found the variations pointed to achelousaurus and other dinosaurs in the formation being homeothermic endotherms- the same as our avian dinosaurs today!

higher resolution version and a link to the paper under the cut!

apologies the above article is locked by paywall D: i could rant for hours how much i hate research being locked like this But I Am Normal And Would Not Subject You To That :]

#paleoart #paleoblr #centrosaur #ceratopsian #achelousaurus #5/17/23 #a little late with her but happy about her nonetheless!!!#achelous have really fascinating skulls and the fossils themselves are v neat ..#epic ceratopsian. W!#dinosaur

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 11 months

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Have you ever read any books with fictional paleontologists? If you have what's the biggest thing the writer has gotten wrong/pissed you off the most?

well I mean, I've read Jurassic Park, but crichton based it on Jack Horner and unfortunately horner is actually like that. other than that I can't think of a fictional paleontologist off the top of my head...

in general, fictional paleontologists just don't come up enough for me to have major critiques. I think the big thing is that paleontologists are always "Physically Fit" (skinny and muscular) White Cis Masculine Men, which is *not* the bulk of paleontologists in the slightest. there are disabled paleos! so many women paleos! paleontologists of color! fat paleos (not just me)! trans paleos! the list goes on! paleontology is just as diverse as the real world, which is diverse! so!

#paleontology #fictional paleontologists

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 3 months

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Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

11/03/2024

Jurassic Park is a 1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton.

Spielberg purchased the rights to the book before it was published in 1990, and Crichton was hired to create a film adaptation. David Koepp wrote the final screenplay, in which many of the violent features of the book and much of the narrative part were lost, also making numerous changes to the characters. Spielberg hired Stan Winston Studios to create the animatronic subjects that would bring the dinosaurs to the screen to interact with Industrial Light & Magic's nascent computer-generated imagery technique. If Tron was the first Disney film to use the then newborn computer graphics, Jurassic Park is considered the first big budget film to make use of CGI.

Paleontologist Jack Horner helped the authors and the team responsible for the special effects to make what they were working with as truthful as possible (although the whole appearance of the dinosaurs turns out to be partly wrong due to subsequent changes in evolutionary theories, in particular way in Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus). Filming lasted from August 24 to November 30, 1992 on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu, California, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

Jurassic Park premiered on June 9, 1993 in Washington, and was released on June 11 in the United States. The film was a huge success with audiences: against a budget of $63 million, it grossed over $914 million worldwide in its first theatrical release, surpassing E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of Titanic in 1997.

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jurakan · 2 years

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fun facts fun faCTS fun FACTS FUN FACTS FUN F A C TS

Today You Learned about paleontologist (NOT the composer!) Jack Horner!

This man has two claims to fame:

-First, that he was the proponent of a controversial theory in the paleontological community that Tyrannosaurus Rex was actually a scavenger, rather than a hunter. I remember Discovery Channel doing a documentary special on this, which shaped my thought quite a lot on the topic, and included a T-Rex with coloration like a vulture, with a bright red head. I don't think this idea is generally considered accurate today, but I remember mentioning the idea in Boy Scouts and the friend I was talking to was like, "What are you talking about? It's massive and got sharp teeth!" which isn't really an argument, is it?

Ahem.

-Second, he's been the consultant on the Jurassic Park films. It's a bit humorous because the inspiration for the character of Alan Grant in the novel was actually Horner's rival Robert Bakker, who STRONGLY disagreed with the T-Rex being a scavenger thing. There's a paleontologist in Jurassic Park: The Last World that's meant to be a caricature of Bakker, and he gets eaten by a T-Rex. Supposedly Bakker realized this, and upon seeing the movie sent Horner a message saying, "See? I told you T-Rex was a hunter!" Which shows good humor on Bakker's part.

[Also Bakker wrote a novel about dinosaurs from the point of view of dinosaurs. It's called Raptor Red.]

But something else interesting? This man learned absolutely nothing from the premise of Jurassic Park despite having worked on the movies. He wrote a novel titled How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to be Forever in which he explains that it should be possible to build a "chickenosaurus" (his word, not mine, weirdly enough), a dinosaur made from genetically modifying a chicken embryo. He's leading a project to try to make a dinosaur from it, as well as seeing what benefits to human diseases can be gained from genetic engineering. But mostly to make a dinosaur!

George Lucas helped fund the project.

So yes, there is a famous paleontologist out there trying to make a dinosaur! That's a thing You Learned Today.

EDIT! With further information provided by @starstuffspeaks, I would prefer if this wasn’t reblogged without this addition/disclaimer.

#Fun Fact Friday #Today You Learned #paleontology #Jurassic Park #dinosaurs #chickens #Jack Horner

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atwas-meme-ing · 1 year

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Some Clue headcanons (mostly for the games):

My only movie headcanon: Everyone thinks Miss Scarlett got her name because she runs a brothel, but Scarlett is actually her first name. Her last name is O'Hara. No, she never tells anybody.

Professor Plum doesn't use his real name at all. His real name is Jack Horner. He's also not actually a professor. He never graduated because he had to leave town in a hurry. He's only recognized as an archaeologist because he made an important find in South America and wrote a paper on it.

Colonel Mustard was raised in England by English parents, but he was born in France. (Get it? French's mustard?)

Monsieur Brunette is neither brunette nor French. He's an American with dirty blonde hair, but he started dying it to avoid recognition. But he's not fooling anybody with that bad accent.

The movie made Mrs. White out to be a sort of a black widow, but in the games, the real black widow was Mrs. Peacock. Her nickname is the "bird of prey."

Miss Peach wasn't completely lying- she really is Mr. Boddy's long-lost grand-niece. But she wasn't the least bit interested in family, just money.

Madame Rose isn't Hungarian, or even of Hungarian descent. She just has a flair for fortune-telling, and she loves goulash. She's also much better at a Hungarian accent than Brunette is at French.

BTW, the headcanon for Plum, who the game manual described as an archaeologist, is partly inspired by real-life paleontologist Jack Horner. Jack Horner didn't graduate from paleontology school, but he wrote several theses and was the one who discovered the Maiasaura at Egg Mountain in Montana, along with numerous other finds.

#clue #my headcanon #miss scarlett #professor plum #colonel mustard #monsieur brunette #mrs. white #mrs. peacock #miss peach #mr. boddy #madame rose #board game

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smolcinnamonchipmunk · 2 years

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I realized today one of the main reasons why I get so heated when it comes to JP/JW fans disregarding paleobiology and especially some of the responses to Prehistoric Planet. It's because they *legitimately* are so mentally distanced from these prehistoric animals that they fucking think they're fantasy creatures. Oh, they might know that dinosaurs exist, know that they were around 65+ million years ago, but it doesn't mentally click that these were living, breathing animals. Now, when I say dinosaurs, I'm NOT including Pteranodon or other pterosaurs, nor am I including Mosasaurus which is a Mosasaur and not related to dinosaurs as closely since dinosaurs generally only refer to the land dwelling. Those are also incredibly inaccurate, but more specifics would take longer.

I'm not going to screenshot or link the comment, but it was on a Twitter post comparing some of the dinosaurs from JWD and Prehistoric Planet (I.e. Rex, Carnotaurus, Atricoraptor, etc). And someone had said something along the lines of "I don't see why it's such a big deal on how JWD presents its dinosaurs compared to Prehistoric Planet." And, it hit me.

Due to Jurassic Parks mainstream popularity, some people have taken those designs, that starting base of screen dinosaurs as *fact*. Now, were they trying to be scientifically accurate for the time period? Yes, and no. They worked with what they had, dinosaurs weren't linked to birds yet and not many feather imprints had been found. Jack Horner, the paleontologist advisor for the movies, said that Spielberg purposefully made the dinosaurs shades of grey and brown because vibrantly colored dinosaurs didn't sound scary to him. Spielberg also based the Velociraptors off of another Dromeosaur, Deinonychus, but said it should be bigger (From 6ft length to 10ft) and that they would use the name Velociraptor because it sounded scarier as a creature name. These were choices for Hollywood, not because they "didn't know any better" for the time.

Some people I’ve talked to bring up the fact that they’re not pure dinosaurs, and, again, that’d be fine if that’s what people SAW them as. Some modern amalgamation of dinosaur, lizards, frogs, and other stuff. No one talks about how Indominus Rex is the best factual dinosaur, everyone treats her as an actual hybrid. But so many people see the Jurassic Franchise as factual, which I don’t GET.

Ever since the premiere and popularity of Jurassic Park, paleontology has continued. This has led to the discoveries of several new species and aspects of Prehistoric life. Many dinosaurs had feathers, they were likely bulkier due to fat and muscle deposits not fossilizing, dinosaurs held some sort of care/tolerance for their offspring including T. Rex, and Spinosaurus likely walked on all fours due to short limbs compared to the bipedal reenactment that defeated the T. Rex in the JP series.

And these discoveries ‘ruin’ dinosaurs for people, as though these extinct creatures lived for their entertainment millions of years ago.

I’m not saying you can’t enjoy JP or JW. Hell, I like the first JP movie and the first JW movie both! A lot! What I’m saying is please stop fucking taking these creatures as your own fact and then call Prehistoric Planet a disgrace to dinosaurs just because it shows them as living, breathing creatures that didn’t have territory fights every fucking minute.

I’m tired of people saying shit like “It’s so boring, they’re just sleeping or eating in most of this”. Like, yeah, Chad. That’s what animals do. Fuck, that’s probably what YOU do a lot. It’s a documentary based on what we know, not a fucking dinosaur MMA to satisfy your need for something exciting in your boring ass life while you have a mid-life crisis.

If it’s not for you, fine, I get that. I’m not a fan of space movies. But I don’t fucking bash every single one just because it doesn’t have what I want, I’ll bash egregious plot holes. I just watch the shit I want, and if some new fact comes out, even if I don’t like it, I just go “Aight, cool”. Do I like that Carno had scaly skin? Not really, I like the thought of feathery dinosaurs. But, there’s been actual skin imprints for Carnotaurus that supported little to no feather development.

I don’t know. I’m tired, achy and angry. Rant over, I’m taking another fucking nap.

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ninjacat1515 · 1 year

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A paleontologist I despise has the same name as the great DreamWorks villain Jack Horner. And the big bad is actually a better man in some ways than the scientist. Why?

Horner at age 65 married a 19 year old. He's just a gross, shitty, awful person.

And he has a bizarre hate campaign against the T-rex. Rumor has it he was trying to find duck billed dinosaurs but kept finding Rex specimens.

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autistic-ben-tennyson · 4 months

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Jack Horner

When I heard the name Jack Horner in Puss and Boots The Last Wish, I always think of the paleontologist who once had promise, but slowly turned into a woo woo nut. Examples include Spinosaurus killing T-rex, Torosaurus is triceratops, T-rex is a scavenger, selling NFTs and marrying a 19 year old undergrad at age 65. Both the Puss in boots Horner and the scientist Horner are irredeemable in my book

#puss in boots 2 #the last wish #paleontology #jurassic park #jack horner #dinosaurs

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timpaxew · 6 months

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PALEONTOLOGISTS I’m about to meet Jack Horner. What should I ask him??

#I have no idea !!#paleontology #coprolite posting

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ask-emoripals · 10 months

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Who are everyone's celebrity crushes?

🎹: None of us give a shit about celebrities, let alone crushing on them. Besides that, Hero is far more adorable than any celebrity…… combined.

🔪: Agreed with sis, celebrities are lame. None of us like those people.

🦖: Paleontologists, on the other hand! I love them… except for FUCKING Jack Horner! >:(

🪴: Dafuq… Jack Horner from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish!?!!

⭐️: She meant the real life, paleontologist one… the one that said that T rexes are exclusively scavengers. Also language Kimmy! :(

#ask emori pals #emori ask blog #emori au #emori #omori ask blog #omori #omori mari #omori sunny #omori kim #omori basil #omori aubrey #omori heromari #yes #jack horner is a real person

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year

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Birthdays 6.15

Beer Birthdays

John Lofting (d. 1742)

William Ogden (1805)

Sonia Gover, Miss Rheingold 1943 (1921)

Ron Lindenbusch (1961)

Alexandre Cardona (1991)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sophie Amundsen; character in Sophie's World (1976)

Edvard Grieg; composer (1843)

Neil Patrick Harris; actor (1973)

Mike Holmgren; Green Bay Packers coach (1948)

Harry Nilsson; singer, songwriter (1941)

Famous Birthdays

Wilbert Awdry; writer (1911)

Jim Belushi; actor (1954)

Robert Russell Bennett; composer (1894)

"The Black Prince," Edward of Woodstock (1330)

Wade Boggs; Boston Red Sox 3B (1958)

Mary Carey; porn actor (1981)

Courtney Cox; actor (1964)

Ice Cube; rapper (1969)

Mario Cuomo; politician (1932)

Erroll Garner; jazz pianist (1921)

Terri Gibbs; pop singer (1954)

Julie Hagerty; actor (1955)

Xavier Hollander; Dutch writer, madam (1943)

Jack Horner; paleontologist (1946)

Helen Hunt; actor (1963)

Brian Jacques; writer (1939)

Waylon Jennings; country singer (1937)

Ken Jeong; actor, comedian (1969)

Lash LaRue; actor (1917)

Tim Lincecum; San Francisco Giants P (1984)

William McFee; writer (1881)

Nicola Pagett; actor (1945)

Leon Payne; country singer (1917)

Nicolas Poussin; French artist (1594)

Hugo Pratt; Italian comic book artist (1927)

Lee Purcell; actor (1947)

Leah Remini; actor (1970)

David Rose; composer (1910)

Herbert A. Simon; economist (1916)

Saul Steinberg; Romanian cartoonist (1914)

Morris Udall; politician (1922)

Jim Varney; comedian, actor (1949)

Steve Walsh; rock singer, "Kansas" (1951)

Bob Wian; Bob’s Big Boy founder (1914)

Billy Williams; Chicago Cubs LF (1938)

#Birthdays

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proxylynn · 1 year

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Ah yes… Big Jack Horner..I love how he is both the person from the fairy tale...but also...there's a real life Jack Horner who is a paleontologist, who is one of the main consultants of the first Jurassic Park. He is also one of a rather controversial prehistoric take.

He claims that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a scavenger only, even though there is evidence that they were both hunter AND scavenger. Real life villain of Paleontology.

[I do so love how you have to be specific when searching his name now. Just typing Jack Horner into youtube will get you puss in boots stuff and also normal man talking about dinos. Also, Rex's were so hunters and scavengers. Why would a pure scavenger grow to be so massive?! Why would a scavenger evolve to have such massive teeth and powerful legs? Think! You silly silly paleontologist!]

#to op

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strange-aus-and-crossovers · 1 year

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Big Jack Horner. share your opinion and thoughts?

I love how he is both the person from the fairy tale...but also...there's a real life Jack Horner who is a paleontologist, who is one of the main consultants of the first Jurassic Park. He is also one of a rather controversial prehistoric take.

He claims that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a scavenger only, even though there is evidence that they were both hunter AND scavenger. Real life villain of Paleontology.

Yeah. Bet you didn't expect dinosaur facts when you asked about Puss in Boots did you?

#ask

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beardedhandstoadshark · 1 year

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thoughts on Jack Horner ?

Not sure if you mean the politician, the paleontologist, or the character from the puss in boots movie but I can’t give you anything about either on them :/

#another anon ask #the movie seems cool tho #saw a clip of the fightscene against the giant thingy and #the bell hits sync up with the background music?? which is really neat??#plus the camera shots

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islanublar · 2 years

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JPI: 2001-2016

The formation of the Jurassic Park Institute represents the next step in the evolution of one of the most popular franchises in motion picture history - Jurassic Park. A science-based and educationally focused program, JPI has one mission - to provide kids, families, educators and scientists with the ultimate resource for dinosaur learning and fun.

Beginning with the launch of JPI Online, the Institute will, when completed, combine all forms of media to create the most exciting and dynamic forum for dinosaur fun, study, and research the world has ever known.

While Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: The Lost World are works of fiction, the premise is grounded in scientific fact and theory. The filmmakers and author Michael Crichton went to great lengths to make sure that that the science upon which the movies were based was as credible and realistic as possible. The Jurassic Park Institute will use this as its foundation and will continue this commitment to authenticity.

Dinosaurs were the most spectacular and some of the most successful animals ever to walk the Earth. Often times they are a child's first entry into the world of science and a subject of endless fascination and speculation among people of all ages. By its unprecedented support of scientific research, its public communication of the latest information in science education, its activities, exhibits and programs, The Jurassic Park Institute opens a new window into the greatest adventure in the history of life - the world of dinosaurs.

Welcome to Jurassic Park Institute!

Jurassic Park Institute has one mission - to provide kids, families, educators and scientists with the ultimate resource for dinosaur learning and fun. We have invited renowned paleontologists, authors, educators, dinosaur experts and enthusiasts to participate in developing accurate scientific information, innovative activities, and thoughtful editorials to encourage the further exploration of knowledge on the subject of dinosaurs.

It is our goal to provide you with the most up to date information from around the globe regarding research, findings and discoveries. We our proud to present our outstanding content contributors for the Jurassic Park Institute web site.

Established in 1997 by Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, the Jurassic Foundation has funded dozens of paleontological research projects. Focusing on smaller, field research projects, the Foundation has contributed in excess of $1 million to the scientific community - making it one of the largest private funders of dinosaur research in the world.

The Jurassic Foundation is run by dinosaur scientists for dinosaur scientists. It is presently chaired by Dr. Philip Currie of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta with fellow board members, Dr. John R. "Jack" Horner, Jurassic Park science advisor and professor of paleontology at the Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana and Dr. Kathy Forster of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The Jurassic Foundation board awards grants via applications from fellow scientists with priority on support of graduate and international researchers. The Foundation has operated, since its inception, entirely without any overhead or administration costs - 100% of its revenues have gone to grants and endowment for future grants.

Welcome to the Jurassic Park Institute Dino Guides. Here you will be able to browse the database to find the newest Jurassic Park products; locate links to some of the best dinosaur sites on the web; and you will even be able to locate dinosaurs in your local area with the museum and park resources. It's all here, so just click on the section you want and you're off to worlds not seen in 65 million years!

JPI: DINOSAUR FIELD GUIDE Written by two noted paleontologists, this kid-friendly nonfiction book uses easy-to-understand text to describe at least 100 dinosaurs alphabetically. More JPI: DINOSAUR STICKER BOOK When kids enter the Jurassic Park Institute DINOSAUR STICKER BOOK they'll discover 50 re-usable dinosaurs stickers that are ready to stomp and roar through 16 full-color pages of jungle backdrops and fun activities. More JPI: DINOSAURS ALIVE! STICKER BOOK This oversized sticker book is packed with reusable dinosaur stickers, colorful backdrops, and fascinating dino facts! A great interactive companion to our DINOSAURS ALIVE! More DINOSAURS ALIVE! The Dinosaur-Bird Connection (Step 4, Step-into-Reading Book) - Are birds the descendants of dinosaurs? Many scientists believe dinosaurs are still alive among us--in the shape of our fine-feathered friends! More

#source: JPI

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