Date Born/ Age:06/29/56

Length: 6'1"

Weight:185 lbs.

Favorite Food: Szechuan Eggplant

Family:Lackadae

Genus: Insanus

Species: Bonkeri

Place of Origin:  Belly River Formation

Habitat: The Frozen Swamps of Alberta 

Favorite Movie: The Usual Suspects or Run Lola Run or The Matrix depending on the lunar cycle.

Favorite TV Show: Don't watch much TV.

Favorite Dinosaur: I don't actually have one.  I prefer imagining them collectively interacting in the various ecosystems in which they lived.

Favorite Sport: Whichever one is having playoffs.  I love to see people under more stress than me.

Exercise: Sculpting large dinos, running around in circles.

Hobbies: Try making life-size dinosaurs for a living and see if you have time for one.

Distinguishing Features: Numerous scars from walking into the claws of fiberglass dinos.

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Biographical Notes

I was born in 1956 and raised on a farm in the Pincher Creek area of southern Alberta.

In 1979, I graduated from the sculpture department of the Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, where I met my wife, Mary Ann Wilson. 

Since 1983, I have, with the assistance of Mary Ann and other artists, made sculptures of over forty dinosaurs (mostly life-sized)  for such places as:

• The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta
• The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
• The South Florida Museum of Natural History (formerly Graves Museum) Dania Beach, Florida
• Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan
• National Museum of Natural History, Taiwan
• Calgary International Airport
• Disney World at Orlando, Florida, USA
• Numerous traveling exhibits in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia

Work has appeared in five issues of National Geographic, including two front covers.

Mary Ann and I have recently published Make-A-Saurus (Annick Press) a children's book  on how to make dinosaurs.  We have two daughters.

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Make-A-Saurus: My Life with Raptors and Other Dinosaurs
                     by Brian Cooley, Mary Ann Wilson
                                   List Price: $14.95
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                                   Category: Children's Books 
                      Reading level: Ages 9-12
                 Paperback - 64 pages (October 7, 2000) 
                     Firefly Books; ISBN: 1550376446 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.19 x 10.51 x 8.22