quotations about dinosaurs
The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.
ROBERT T. BAKKER
The Dinosaur Heresies
I was looking out my window
Late the other night
She was sitting in the garden
And gave me such a fright
Eating all Mum's roses
There in the moonlight
It was Dorothy the Dinosaur
I knew that if Mum saw her
She'd never let her stay
A dinosaur as big as that
Need's feeding night and day
I'd have to find a place
Where I could hide her away
Dorothy the dinosaur
THE WIGGLES
"Dorothy the Dinosaur"
There's two feet of topsoil
A little bit of bedrock
Limestone in between
A fossilized dinosaur
A little patch of crude oil
A thousand feet of granite underneath
And then there's me
BRAD PAISLEY
"Two Feet of Topsoil"
Giant predator lizards can't evolve in the presence of big mammal predators. So the lesson is that mammals suppress much of the evolutionary potential of modern lizards. Is the Komodo dragon a good working model of how dinosaurs succeeded? Absolutely not. Dinosaurs suppressed the evolutionary potential of mammals, not the other way around. And dinosaurs carried out this supression everywhere, on all the continents, not merely on a few tiny tropical isles. Dinosaurs succeeded where Komodo dragons fail.
ROBERT T. BAKKER
The Dinosaur Heresies