Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs?

Is it possible that creepy crawlies and insects, rather than an ice age, or a meteor hitting the planet, were in fact responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs?

The authors aren’t arguing that the dinos all died in a massive epidemic; rather, the constant wear and tear of illness weakened the dinosaurs so that other catastrophes, like comets and volcanoes, could have finished them off. Still, the Poinars couldn’t resist a bit of made-for-Hollywood drama. One great quote from the book: “The largest of the land animals, the dinosaurs, would have been locked in a life-or-death struggle with [insects] for survival.”

It could be the dinosaurs were vulnerable to insect borne diseases such as malaria, and that helped hasten their demise.