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Nature 451, 1053 (28 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/4511053a; Published online 27 February 2008
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Pest friends in the Cretaceous
Karen Chin1
Abstract
Fossils preserved in amber hint at surprising links between dinosaurs and their insect contemporaries.
BOOK REVIEWED-What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
by George Poinar, Jr & Roberta Poinar
Princeton University Press: 2008. 296 pp. $29.95, £17.95
Dinosaurs are usually portrayed as the pristine masters of the Cretaceous. George and Roberta Poinar's new book presents a different view — dinosaurs besieged by swarms of insects; dinosaurs with oozing, infected bites; dinosaurs weakened by parasite-induced illnesses.
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