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What Bugged the Dinosaurs?
Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
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This book is ideal for readers interested in palaeontology, entomology, and the science behind dinosaur extinction. It appeals to those who enjoy scientific discoveries told in an engaging and accessible manner, including students, researchers, and general enthusiasts of natural history.
Shows how insects dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, this work reconstructs the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects.
This is an excellent book. There is no doubt Poinar and Poinar have admirable track records and they are well known for their sustained and high-quality work on fossil insects, and especially on insects in amber. -- Michael J. Benton, author of "When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time" Interesting and engaging. This book presents evidence that insects interacted as prey, as competitors for plant food, and as vectors of dinosaur diseases. It develops the intriguing and plausible hypothesis that insects contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. -- Timothy D. Schowalter, author of "Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach"
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Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex—with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons—was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T. rex was not the only killer. George and Roberta Poinar show how insects—from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites—dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs.
The Poinars bring the age of the dinosaurs marvelously to life. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, they reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. The Poinars draw upon tantalising new evidence from their amazing discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilised dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations.
A scientific adventure story from the authors whose research inspired Jurassic Park, What Bugged the Dinosaurs? offers compelling evidence of how insects directly and indirectly contributed to the dinosaurs' demise.
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Reviews praise the book's thorough and accessible scientific approach. The Times Literary Supplement highlights the spectacular colour photographs of fossil insects and the compelling evidence presented for parasite and pathogen roles. Publishers Weekly commends the authors for adding a fascinating new dimension to dinosaur extinction theories by showing how insects could have spread diseases among plants and animals. The scientific narrative is described as impressive, thought-provoking, and vivid.
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ISBN: 9780691124315
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 January 2008
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Illustration: 61 color illus. 39 line illus.
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 482g
Pages: 280
About the Author
George Poinar, Jr., is currently in the Zoology Department at Oregon State University. He is well known internationally in various fields, including paleobiology, nematology, and insect pathology. He became familiar with tropical diseases while serving as a consultant for the United Nations and World Health Organization. Roberta Poinar is a retired research scientist. They are the coauthors of The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World (Princeton) and The Quest for Life in Amber. Their research has been featured in leading publications worldwide and on television programs such as Nova.
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