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Quotes from Dinosaur Renaissance — Robert T. Bakker

born 1945 United States

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The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology.

Dinosaur Renaissance (1985)

I do not believe birds deserve to be put in a taxonomic class separate from dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Renaissance (1985)

The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the prototype of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants.

Dinosaur Renaissance (1985)

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 (1985)

When the dinosaurs fell at the end of the Cretaceous, they were not a senile, moribund group that had played out its evolutionary options. Rather they were vigorous, still diversifying into new orders and producing a variety of bigbrained carnivores with the highest grade of intelligence yet present on land.

Dinosaur Renaissance (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert T. Bakker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.