Today we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Robert Bakker. Bakker was born in Bergen County, New Jersey. He attributes his interest in dinosaurs to his reading an article in the September 7, 1953, issue of Life magazine. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1963.[3]
At Yale University Bakker studied under John Ostrom, an early proponent of the new view of dinosaurs, and later earned his PhD at Harvard.
Bakker has changed the image of dinosaurs from slow-moving, slow-witted, cold-blooded creatures. He posited that dinosaurs had feathers, long before feathered fossils were found, and champions that some dinosaurs were warm blooded.
Bakker is most noted most for his theoretical work on dinosaur habits, habitats and extinction. He is the originator of the controversial hypotheses that dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded, that diseases caused the demise of the dinosaurs, and dinosaur mothers cared for their young. His then controversial theories were first introduced in his groundbreaking 1986 book The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction.
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Today we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Robert Bakker.
Bakker was born in Bergen County, New Jersey. He attributes his interest in dinosaurs to his reading an article in the September 7, 1953, issue of Life magazine. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1963.[3]
At Yale University Bakker studied under John Ostrom, an early proponent of the new view of dinosaurs, and later earned his PhD at Harvard.
Bakker has changed the image of dinosaurs from slow-moving, slow-witted, cold-blooded creatures. He posited that dinosaurs had feathers, long before feathered fossils were found, and champions that some dinosaurs were warm blooded.
Bakker is most noted most for his theoretical work on dinosaur habits, habitats and extinction. He is the originator of the controversial hypotheses that dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded, that diseases caused the demise of the dinosaurs, and dinosaur mothers cared for their young. His then controversial theories were first introduced in his groundbreaking 1986 book The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction.
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