Thread:Dinosaurus1/@comment-6025261-20180506225538/@comment-7690264-20180514135903

Holy shit will people stop trying to discredit a major hypothesis based on the fact that one of its proponents has had a dubious history! Guess what, every major Palaeontologist has suggested or done some pretty crazy stuff! Robert Bakker thought that Pterosaurs were dinosaurs and that they all died out from disease! That didn’t stop him from revolutionising the world with his warm-blooded dinosaur hypothesis. Early in his career, Tom Holtz suggested that Tyrannosaurs, Ornithomimids and Troodonts belonged in their own group, separate from other coelurosaurs, and now he’s one of the most respected dinosaur Palaeontologists out there. Paul Sereno hardly ever publishes anything regularly, despite possessing one of the most extensive dinosaur collections, including a Tyrannosaurus skin fragment which may indicate the presence of feathers, but that hasn’t stopped him from naming many awesome species of dinosaur and crocodile. To this day Greg Paul synonymises many genera others would see wrong to lump, even Horner, and his illustrations are notably shrink wrapped, but he’s also one of the most respected Paleoartists and his skeletals are an excellent resource.

So yeah, Horner said Tyrannosaurus was a scavenger, but he also discovered the first dinosaur nest site and dinosaur embryos, and then he did it all over again