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. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
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. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
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. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
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. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote
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. Robert T. Bakker Read Quote