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Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded).
Roberto Bakker was born on 23 November 1940 in Netherlands. He was a production manager and producer, known for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), Sorcerer (1977) and The Fall (2006). He died on 28 April 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mar 7, 2014 · Step backward in time to visit the age of the dinosaurs with acclaimed American paleontologist Robert Bakker. Bakker shares his fascination for the Jurassic age with Upon Reflection host Al...
Dr. Robert T. Bakker. Adjunct Curator of Paleontology. Dr. Bakker is a world renown paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded).
Bakker was the first to suggest dinosaurs had feathers, a point spectacularly proved just in the last decade by wonderfully preserved fossils from China. Bakker's heresies have converted the masses. Today, only a handful of orthodox scientists resist the evidence for the dinosaurian ancestry of birds.
Perhaps the man who did the most to cement the ‘new look’ of dinosaurs in the public consciousness was the forward-thinking Dr. Robert (“Bob”) Bakker (1945–)—himself a student of Ostrom’s—who published a series of influential scientific papers and popular books and articles in the ‘70s and ‘80s (not to mention appearances in ...
Known for his long facial beard, pony tail, and western sun hat, Dr. Robert T. Bakker is considered one of the most energetic and outspoken of the 1970s generation of American paleontologists who ushered in a new era of dinosaur theories.
