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Horner is the real palaeontologist who inspired the character of Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Since finding his first dinosaur bone at the age of eight, Horner has dug up the first dinosaur embryos, the first dinosaur eggs in the Western world and has discovered and named the dinosaur species ‘Maiasaura’. During his time as the palaeontology consultant for the Jurassic Park films, Horner advised Steven Spielberg on how to make the portrayal of dinosaurs as realistic as possible. While he deems the cloning process pure fiction, this hasn’t stopped Horner from trying to bring back the dinosaurs