Quotes

“Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking in inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.”
Dinosaur Renaissance
“The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology.”
Dinosaur Renaissance
“Our own mammalian order, the primates, prides itself on hand-eye coordination, monkeys, apes, and man are all good manipulators. But no mammal can rival the chameleon for eye-tongue coordination.”
The Dinosaur Heresies, p. 68
“Even 'Jurassic Park III' tried to jump on the avian-dino bandwagon by making a brave attempt to adorn Velociraptor with a feathery hair-piece.”
pp. 1-11
“No one, either in the nineteenth century or the twentieth, has ever built a persuasive case proving that dinosaurs as a whole were more like reptilian crocodiles than warm-blooded birds. No one has done this because it can't be done.”
The Dinosaur Heresies, p. 27

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Books by Robert T. Bakker in order

Books by Robert T. Bakker in the order they were published, from The Dinosaur Heresies (1986) to The Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs (2013).