What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by Poinar, George

What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691124315)

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What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by Poinar, George

What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous

$29.95
What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by Poinar, George

What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 tantalizing 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 fossilized 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.

Author: George Poinar, Roberta Poinar
ISBN-10: 0691124310
ISBN-13: 9780691124315
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2008
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.38w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2007 pg. 11
Foreword 01/01/2008 pg. 1
Science Books & Films 05/01/2008 pg. 113
Science Books & Films Best Bks 01/01/2009 pg. 5
Library Journal 02/11/2008
By George Poinar
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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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