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. ... Read full entry
Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs?
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 12 January, 2008 to the comment subset
![]()
|





