Top 24 Quotes by Robert T. Bakker

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.