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Feathers predate birds.

Robert T. Bakker

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Robert T. Bakker
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Novelist
Paleontologist
University Teacher
Ridgewood
New Jersey
Bakker
Robert Thomas Bakker
Feathers
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Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
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In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
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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.
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I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
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Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.
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As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
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