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Robert T. Bakker (b. 1945) is an American paleontologist who was one of the first scientists to propose that dinosaurs were “warm-blooded”, promoting this idea when he published The Dinosaur Heresies in 1986. He has gone on to become an expert on dinosaur behavior and in 1995 published the novel Raptor Red, an account of the life of a female dinosaur during the Cretaceous Period. After Bakker gained fame while pushing the frontiers of dinosaur science, Stephen Spielberg modeled the character of Dr. Robert Burke after him in The Lost World (aka Jurassic Park 2), in which he is eaten by a T. rex. The real (and intact) Dr. Bakker currently serves as the Curator of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences.
Robert T. Bakker on Readers Lane
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