The whole thing is just totally a misunderstanding.

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.