I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.
I have no patience with dinosaurs.
I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.
We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.
I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mind couldn't relate to what it was... If I saw it and knew it was a shark, I wouldn't be as afraid, but I saw something that looked prehistoric, and I haven't been snorkeling since.
Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.
A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.
Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
