WHAT BUGGED THE DINOSAURS?
Insects, Disease, and Death in the
Cretaceous
GEORGE POINAR JR. AND ROBERTA POINAR
Disease may have played a pivotal role in ending the reign of dinosaurs. That's the basic premise behind this book by the Poinars, who have reconstructed life in the Cretaceous based largely on their study of insects and other critters embedded in amber. Their research, which was an inspiration for Jurassic Park, points to the dinosaurs' environment as one rife with biting, stinging, blood-sucking and germ-hosting insects and worms. Fossilized poop confirms that the massive ...