Robert T. Bakker Quotes

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 not many sea faring ones.

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

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

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

Feathers predate birds.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

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

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

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.

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 not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It’s that they are real.

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

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

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.

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.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

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

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