Article: What Bugged the Dinosaurs: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous.(Book review)

Article: What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in ...
Natural History;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects ... amp; Roberta Poinar Princeton ... fossilized dinosaur skin have ... George and Roberta Poinar, paleozoologists ... convinced that dinosaurs waged a constant ... scene with dinosaurs is indisputable ...

Article: Did mozzies, not a meteor, do for the dinosaurs? Killer: ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 7, 2008 ;     667 words ... ... As theplanteating dinosaurs declined, so would ... theory helps explain why dinosaurs took so long to die ... wife team George and Roberta Poinar. According to the ... acceptedexplanation, the dinosaurs vanished after an asteroid ... thatslowly wore down dinosaur populations, which ...

Article: Were insects dinosaurs' Achilles heel?(News)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  January 13, 2008 ;     629 words ... ... the plant-eating dinosaurs declined, so would ... theory helps explain why dinosaurs took so long to die ... wife team George and Roberta Poinar. According to the ... accepted explanation, the dinosaurs vanished after an asteroid ... that slowly wore down dinosaur populations, which ...

Article: Review of "What bugged the dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and ...
Parasites & Vectors;  March 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Book details What bugged the dinosaurs? Review Have you ever wondered whatever happened to the dinosaurs? George and Roberta Poinar have put forward some evidence ... contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. By studying the arthropods ...

Article: What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in ...
Science News;  April 12, 2008 ;     573 words ...WHAT BUGGED THE DINOSAURS? Insects, Disease ... GEORGE POINAR JR. AND ROBERTA POINAR Disease may have played ... in ending the reign of dinosaurs. That's the basic ... Park, points to the dinosaurs' environment as one ...

Article: The Quest for Life in Amber: Jurassic Park Without the ...
The Washington Post;  October 3, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... that he wrote with his wife Roberta Poinar. The idea that life forms ... book, scientists retrieved dinosaur DNA from blood-sucking insects ... modern DNA to fill in gaps, the dinosaur DNA made dinosaurs. The rest is box-office ...

Article: Dinosaurs' fatal bites.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  January 7, 2008 ;     315 words ... ... insects might have brought down the mighty dinosaurs rather than a cataclysmic meteor impact ... Insects could have also made it harder for dinosaurs to survive by changing the plant life ... to husband and wife team George and Roberta Poinar, of Oregon State University.