American - Scientist | March 24, 1945 -
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
Robert T. Bakker
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Feathers predate birds.
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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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It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.
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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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I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
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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.
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As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
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Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
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At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
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Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
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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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