Robert T. Bakker Quotes

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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts…
• Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
• 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…
• Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.
• It’s very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs — dinosaurs are nature’s Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It’s…
• Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.
• 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…
• Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
• 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…
• I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
• Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
• Feathers predate birds.
• As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
• At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
• I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
• I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.
• In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
• To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
• I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
• Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

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