Robert T. Bakker Quotes

• Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

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• Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

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• Feathers predate birds.

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• Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

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• I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

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• Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

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• When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

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• To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

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• Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

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• Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

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• The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

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• One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

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• It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

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• In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.

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• I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

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• I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

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• At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

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• As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

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Robert T. Bakker (19)

Birth:	24th March, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Scientist

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obert T. Bakker is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic.

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