Robert T. Bakker Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.”

“You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.”

“I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.”

“Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.”

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

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

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

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

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