Bird Quote by Robert T. Bakker Download Open image “Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.” — Robert T. Bakker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Raptors
“Raptors like these falcons were solitary by nature; they didn’t even like each other except in the mating season, much less humans. All you… — S. M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I own two species of the raptors - Falco peregrinus and Falco biarmicus. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“Their [the eggs] physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals,… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
