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
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.
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.