tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post2826149285185083673..comments2024-03-28T06:07:21.640-05:00Comments on Prehistoric CSI: Dr. Bob Bakker, Curator of PaleontologyHouston Museum of Natural Sciencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10232146452663178740noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-14104640812444854082020-04-07T12:49:10.462-05:002020-04-07T12:49:10.462-05:00Dear Dr Bakker,
Is it possible for me to have you...Dear Dr Bakker,<br /><br />Is it possible for me to have your email so that I can contact you and share my interest of dinosaurs and other reptiles with you? <br /><br />It would be extremely kind if you if you could reply regarding this matter.<br /><br />Yours Sincerely,<br /><br />Ramaswamy Narayanaswamy<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09891515692204141834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-35140845095453747332017-05-23T17:02:07.109-05:002017-05-23T17:02:07.109-05:00Is there a chance for an short (7-10 questions) em...Is there a chance for an short (7-10 questions) email interview with Dr. Bakker? <br /><br />All the best – Szymon <br />Szymon Górnickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04726938580506282924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-90660284538964330172017-03-22T07:14:57.983-05:002017-03-22T07:14:57.983-05:00RB do you have any digs for the amateur?
Dug in Ma...RB do you have any digs for the amateur?<br />Dug in Malta for 6 years and once with you at Como Bluffs and loved your post dig/ dinner lectures. <br />Best Regards, Paleochick1<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552634897993437123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-66354358292851778232017-03-21T08:48:49.039-05:002017-03-21T08:48:49.039-05:00Hello, Dr. Bakker, my name is Kyle and I have just...Hello, Dr. Bakker, my name is Kyle and I have just recently finished reading your book The Dinosaur Heresies and I would just like to say that I agree with all of the theories you presented as there is no evidence that I have seen that suggests you are wrong. On topix.com's dinosaur forum there is a member under the alias Coelophysis that is challenging all of your theories using physical characteristics and palate science and making claims that dinosaurs have no relation to birds and even claiming that T. Rex is just a bipedal crocodile with tiny forelimbs and that Spinosaurus has ball joints in its sail and is by far the most advanced dinosaur and had a bite force greater than that of T. Rex when Spinosaurus had jaws designed only for fishing. Could you please assist me in putting an end to this person's lies?<br /><br />the admiring young paleontologist,<br /><br />Kyle FessendenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-45044245563125346182016-10-06T02:17:41.602-05:002016-10-06T02:17:41.602-05:00Hi Dr. Bakker, my name is Luis and I doubt you'...Hi Dr. Bakker, my name is Luis and I doubt you'll read this comment but I can't seem to find a way to get in contact with you besides this. My girlfriend has wanted to become a paleontologist ever since she can remember; however, lately there have been a couple of people and situations attempting to keep her from reaching that dream. You are her idol and I would really appreciate it if you could get in contact with her to prove to her that she should follow her dream. This would really mean a lot to her. I'd love to hear back from you soon.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679829002566976885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-32835984192359335842016-03-13T15:22:36.359-05:002016-03-13T15:22:36.359-05:00Greetings Dr. Bakker,
We met & dug together s...Greetings Dr. Bakker,<br /><br />We met & dug together several times in the early 2000's. I was with Nate Murphy's Judith River DI bunch…oh. well. Enjoyed all of the camaraderie with the "paleochicks". Not sure if Kathy Kanak kept up communication with you over the years but we spoke recently. Kathy, her mom Vi and I also dug with your group at Como Bluffs, great educational opportunity and fun too.<br /><br />Are you still in Wyoming or in Texas?? Are there still opportunities to do week long digs. I enjoyed your microsite dig as much as or more than unearthing the big bones!!<br /><br />Bee Well,<br /><br />Lori Hennigar Snead<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552634897993437123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-6365159729105109692016-01-29T10:25:59.119-06:002016-01-29T10:25:59.119-06:00My wife and I have given copies of Raptor Red to m...My wife and I have given copies of Raptor Red to many, many young grooms to help them understand their wives and sisters in law. Our son married a twin and we see the raptor come out in one or both all the time mike readingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-68429148075578171262015-05-02T21:30:13.592-05:002015-05-02T21:30:13.592-05:00Robert Bakker thinks size shows which group of ani...Robert Bakker thinks size shows which group of animals is superior. He is right. But it is small size, not large that shows a group of animals is superior. The therapsids were superior to archosaurs, the mammals were superior to the dinosaurs.<br /><br />The therapsids, including the mammals, successfully evolved small species. Those small, numerous species carried diseases that killed large therapsids, including mammals. <br /><br />The large therapsids, including mammals, could not handle both the diseases and the competition from the archosaurs and dinosaurs. <br /><br />The archosaurs and dinosaurs had the advantage of not having really small relatives to infect them.Richard Brucehttp://richleebruce.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-51086913581070386952014-11-15T01:33:50.768-06:002014-11-15T01:33:50.768-06:00Get in touch if you can, Bob. Alan Rice long ago f...Get in touch if you can, Bob. Alan Rice long ago from Boulder: <br />arr80@columbia.eduAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14799151609333102421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-90374480492655752932014-10-24T20:18:03.641-05:002014-10-24T20:18:03.641-05:00Dear Dr.Bakker, I am writting you because maybe yo...Dear Dr.Bakker, I am writting you because maybe you can with all your knowledge & experience can stop Ken Ham he is teaching people & especially children that dinosaurs are only a few thousand years old & were on Noah's Ark if you can believe that he is a creationist & he has a very large following & he needs someone like you who has credibility to maybe show the world who & what he really is (a liar&a fraud)he just can't teach this to kids to anybody it almost a crime thank you for listening.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17521491826498832686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-44443871561137125192013-08-25T14:50:04.187-05:002013-08-25T14:50:04.187-05:00Dr. Bob, my name is Eddie & i am a big fan. No...Dr. Bob, my name is Eddie & i am a big fan. Now i never paleontology in collage but, i have listen to you guys speak. <br />If someone wants to learn about an extinct animal, watch it's closest living relitives. So anyone who thinks T-Rex was a scavenger is not doing their science. Most true scavengers are small in size like cyotes & jackels. They even still hunt mice & what not. If Horner thinks T-Rex could not hunt because it had small arms, then ask him how did Gastornis catch it prey? It had no arms & hunted animals the size of house cats, not it's own size.<br /> Thank youEddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-51871793893090827702013-06-01T18:33:32.391-05:002013-06-01T18:33:32.391-05:00Dr. Bakker ,
I agree with you that almost all dino...Dr. Bakker ,<br />I agree with you that almost all dinosaurs if not all disappeared long before the so-call big rock from space theory <br />Over time most of these dinosaurs had evolved to different species or been wipe-out by a virus or bugs.<br /><br />I am looking at the great horses that where here over 14,000 to 13,000 years ago .<br />Two issues I have with this . One the great ice age and small mini ice ace that could had push these horse down south and the other is a virus the wipe-out the horses that did not give the species enough time to recover from the long ice age plus other Earth things..<br /><br />Just maybe like your dinosaurs ran into the same trouble as our late horses did on the North America great continent . The great Mammoth may had gone the same way . We will not know until the DNA sample come in from the blood that was found inside of this Mammoth frozen as you should be up to date on thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-35476998978702692572013-05-31T18:17:30.696-05:002013-05-31T18:17:30.696-05:00my son has written you a letter after watching sev...my son has written you a letter after watching several documentaries. He is 6. Can you please send me an address to send it to? I asked him if he would rather meet lebron james, joe mauer, or bob bakker, he said "bob bakker". please reply to: baddinkster@gmail.comBen Addinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11177539221089501308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-91199731286348678282012-09-24T14:38:26.517-05:002012-09-24T14:38:26.517-05:00Hi,Doctor Bakker, I am with the GT class of Lake T...Hi,Doctor Bakker, I am with the GT class of Lake Travis High School. You may not remember ,but we met at the HMNS when there was a get together for the opening of the new Paleontology Hall . My name is Sarah Kupka and I won a T-Rex poster from you by guessing the dinosaur. The GT class is doing a journalism section and we are supposed to interview a famous person,if possible, and it would be awesome if you could do an interview with me for it. It can be over the phone,in person, via Skype or email. If you could get back to me at either skupka0@gmail.com or (512)487-4355 with your answer,that would be great.Dragonclawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956633288412426449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-44551048648738614642012-05-11T07:58:54.251-05:002012-05-11T07:58:54.251-05:00I started a Dr. Bakker fan page on Facebook a coup...I started a Dr. Bakker fan page on Facebook a couple years ago. Now I'm having a number of people clicking the like button. Some he has meet in the past even someone who went to the same University. Is there any way to get Dr. Bakker to view the page and maybe say hello or leave us a message? Here is the link. Thank You. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Robert-T-Bakker/294432510580842Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132720121233987722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-67429836310767518302012-03-26T16:22:25.083-05:002012-03-26T16:22:25.083-05:00Just wondering where Dr. Bakker is now. Hoping he ...Just wondering where Dr. Bakker is now. Hoping he will get a chance to visit us on his facebook fan pageAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132720121233987722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-59464512076964466362012-03-17T12:07:05.022-05:002012-03-17T12:07:05.022-05:00As there any way to let Dr. Bakker know of a fan p...As there any way to let Dr. Bakker know of a fan page that was created on facebook on his behalf?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132720121233987722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-46474109643614379792012-01-13T14:50:58.420-06:002012-01-13T14:50:58.420-06:00Hello, have here the picture adress
http://www.fl...Hello, have here the picture adress<br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/lolewunder/sets/72157628855901321/<br /><br /><br /><br />UweAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-59956821314904315322012-01-11T22:35:54.807-06:002012-01-11T22:35:54.807-06:00hello, i have a part of a bone, and
i don´t know ...hello, i have a part of a bone, and <br />i don´t know from which dino the bone are. have search in the web about pictures, but i can´t find photos for to see the bone. <br />maybe when you see it, then you say oh, that is from that dino. <br />can you help me? i can send a picture?<br /><br />UweAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-49088370077846716852011-10-22T02:29:15.960-05:002011-10-22T02:29:15.960-05:00Surely, the dude is absolutely fair.Surely, the dude is absolutely fair.sex lifehttp://www.carbonfinancereport.com/store-sex-life-enhancement/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-88412225638835866212011-05-14T22:44:29.391-05:002011-05-14T22:44:29.391-05:00On The Jurassic Trail
If you go to Eastern Oklaho...On The Jurassic Trail<br /><br />If you go to Eastern Oklahoma and venture down the Illinois River, this will be the one running along scenic hwy 10 north of Tahlequah, OK, you will be in Jurassic hunting territory. How do we know this? While taking a canoe trip with a Baptist church group in the early eighties I spotted numerous dinosaur tracks laid out in perfect three toed symmetry in a sandstone layer jutting out into the river. Go when the water level is very low, and you will see the "game trails" I discovered there written in stone for Dr. Bakker to stamp "Certified Dinosaur Trail" on with his academic dino-analytics. I noted the behavior by evidence was a casual gate of the impressionists but there were those carnivore hint s and clues also.<br /><br />Kenneth D. McLaren II<br />linux.penguin@gmx.com<br />PS: Remember who sent you. (You might name it the McLaren Dinosaur Trail or something aye!)Dr. Kenneth D. McLaren 2ndnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-63875578272475379822011-04-21T18:13:10.226-05:002011-04-21T18:13:10.226-05:00Dr. Bakker,
I have no background in paleontology....Dr. Bakker,<br /><br />I have no background in paleontology. I've never even taken it in school, so forgive me if some of my ideas are less informed or my assumptions a little off, but I've had a theory I've been muddling over for years and would like to bounce it off of someone who knows what they're talking about.<br /><br />A long time ago, I read a story about how an Apatosaurus, what we used to call Brontosaurus, had too long a neck for its heart to pump enough blood to its brain. The animal couldn't exist, yet there it was. Later I'd heard a narrator in some documentary state that after a certain period, no animals larger than our modern elephant existed. Anything larger than an African Elephant had died off.<br /><br />The K/T boundary is part the evidence for the comet/meteor theory. This crater or that crater is the other.<br /><br />My theory: Not one huge impact, but thousands, maybe millions of meteors hit the earth. But not single or even multiple catastrophic meteor like Shoemaker-Levy 9. I theorize that it was a shower of meteors that mostly burned out in the sky, raining iridium-laden ash and rock, smoking to the Earth. A meteor shower, rather than a bombardment, over a long period of time, maybe centuries. Perhaps a large impact or two to explain the craters. Enough to explain the vegetation dieing off. Enough to explain why there's this layer over the entire Earth. And also to explain why animals over a certain size died, but not because life got harder or size made them more tempting prey for desperate predators.<br /><br />All those micro-meteors raining down added mass to the planet. They laid down a roughly 2 inch layer over the entire planet. I don't know the math at all, but I would imagine that that much mass added would increase the gravitational pull of the planet itself. This was all new material, not the same finite matter spewed up from volcanoes, as one theory posits. I think those animals were just too big to live after the added mass. Maybe they didn't die because of it, maybe they adapted and evolved because of it, but I can't see animals that size surviving now, even in a zoo. Their mass would kill them. Reverse that thinking and ask what would have to change to imagine the same creature living 65 million years ago. <br /><br />Again, I apologize if my leaps are incorrect, this is pretty much why I'm asking you. I haven't been able to get a 'real' response to this idea.Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338312248747658649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-47944771423483062372011-01-18T06:11:29.956-06:002011-01-18T06:11:29.956-06:00Dear Dr Bakker,
I was watching a doco on T-Rex th...Dear Dr Bakker,<br /><br />I was watching a doco on T-Rex that suggest that T-Rex should be looked at as a scavenger and not as a predatory hunter. Although I have heard that some scientists see T-rex as an ambush predator. But I was wondering if T-rex could behave like a Komodo dragon which will ambush its prey by biting it a couple of times and then just sitting back and wait for it's prey to either die outright from infection from a septic bite or until it was weak enough to take it down.<br />But I was wondering if, like the Komodo dragon, that not only have a toxic bite due to rotten flesh and bactia in around their teeth, but they also secrete a venom within their saliva. Might it not be possible that T-rex may have have also secreted venom through their saliva, thus making their bites mortally septic, so that it just needs to get close enough to make one or two bites, and then just hang around for it's prey to either becomes weak enough to take out with ease, or wait for its prey to die of infection?<br /><br />regards,<br />Brett...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-38899506227894184532010-12-17T17:32:35.486-06:002010-12-17T17:32:35.486-06:00We live in Wichita Falls, close to Seymour where t...We live in Wichita Falls, close to Seymour where the recent Dimetradon fossil dig has taken place. My 10 year old son is very interested in the dig since it is so close to home. Will there be opportunities for students in the local community to attend the dig or possibly attend on an individual basis once the dig resumes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046525157310820204.post-39260004429986082702010-12-10T22:36:20.930-06:002010-12-10T22:36:20.930-06:00Hi,
My name is Joseph.
I have read your book The ...Hi,<br /><br />My name is Joseph.<br />I have read your book The Dinosaur Heresies. It was interesting <br />I am interested in becoming a paleontologist when I am older.<br /><br />JosephAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com