15 Quotes by Mark Norell

A number of them don't even have names yet.

A lot of people, from seeing (the film) Jurassic Park know what an ostrich dinosaur looked like. This is a case of convergence with the ostrich dinosaur. It evolved more than once.

It was collected in this quarry that literally had hundreds of skeletons in it.

It is the third to be found, but the first one that has shown feathers identical to the ones in modern birds. They were probably present on some of those in the past, but the feathers weren't preserved well enough to be able to see the fine structure. On this latest one, feathers are found all over the fossil, and they are best preserved on the back edge of the forearms and hind limbs.

The feather structure is unmistakable. You see a central shaft, and then veins or barbs coming off the side. It is identical to a modern bird feather. It was even obvious to my 3-year-old daughter.

These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them.