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Robert T. Bakker Quotes
Robert T. Bakker Quotes
Robert T. Bakker
American
Scientist
Born:
Mar 24
,
1945
Also
Birds
Dinosaurs
Life
Many
You
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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 context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.
Robert T. Bakker
You
Natural
Mind
Enthusiasm
Reading
Thinking
Giant
Kids
Hunters
Dinosaurs
Objects
Could
Shark
Make
Read
Hall
Motion
Context
Fish
Up
Curb
Mammoth
Human
Stop
Want
Them
Human Mind
Feathers predate birds.
Robert T. Bakker
Feathers
Birds
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
You
Looking
Every
Babies
Tooth
Evidence
See
Nest
Fed
Prey
Hawks
Adult
Feeding
Like
Until
Spot
Were
Been
May
Size
Full
Large
Grown
Eagles
Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
Robert T. Bakker
Birds
Evolved
Small
Like
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Robert T. Bakker
New
Also
Got
Go
American
York
New York
Which
Interest
Helped
Chance
Museum
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
Summer
Jobs
Colorado
Since
Also
Courses
Taught
Then
Held
Many
University
Museums
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
Robert T. Bakker
Complete
Only
Also
Discovered
Skull
In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
Robert T. Bakker
Dinosaurs
Hot
Almost
Said
Were
Richard
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Robert T. Bakker
Me
Ancestors
Dinosaurs
Seems
Advanced
Also
Were
Replaced
Mammal
Warm
It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.
Robert T. Bakker
Asteroid
Everything
Would
Comet
Because
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Robert T. Bakker
Everywhere
Spreading
Were
Diseases
Land
Many
Bridges
Species
Extinction
I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.
Robert T. Bakker
Jurassic
Want
Bob
The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.
Robert T. Bakker
Overwhelming
Birds
Evidence
Dinosaurs
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