Known to harbor a dislike towards Tyrannosaurus rex. Horner famously convinced the creators of the movie
Jurassic Park III (2001) to have the T. rex be killed off by a larger carnivore, and throughout the following decade, he went on to publicly decry the animal, claiming in various documentaries and interviews that T. rex was in reality a slow, ugly scavenger incapable of hunting down prey. In spite of all this, he never wrote an actual scientific paper on the subject until 2011, in which he declared that T. rex was indeed both a hunter and an occasional scavenger. In essence, Horner has been trolling the scientific community and the public for years.
