It’s very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs — dinosaurs are nature’s Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It’s not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It’s that they are real.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.