Quotes by Robert T. Bakker

About Robert T. Bakker:

Robert Thomas Bakker is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). Along with his mentor John Ostrom, Bakker was responsible for initiating the ongoing "dinosaur renaissance" in paleontological studies, beginning with Bakker's article "Dinosaur Renaissance" in the April 1975 issue of Scientific American. His special field is the ecological context and behavior of dinosaurs.
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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.

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Robert T. Bakker

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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.

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

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.

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Robert T. Bakker

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

Robert T. Bakker

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and co...

Robert T. Bakker

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

Robert T. Bakker

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

Robert T. Bakker

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

Robert T. Bakker

Author Bio

  • NameRobert T. Bakker
  • DescriptionAmerican paleontologist
  • BornMarch 24, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPaleontologist; Novelist