Robert T. Bakker Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Eagles, Size, Large, Prey

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  Tags in Museums, Major, Scattered

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

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  Tags in Species, Extinction, Land

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

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  Tags in Museum, Chance, Interest

• I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

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• Feathers predate birds.

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• Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

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

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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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