Robert T. Bakker
Robert T. Bakker
Robert Thomas Bakkeris an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 March 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.
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.
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
Feathers predate birds.
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
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 are tested.
In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
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 fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.