Re: Could insects have caused dinosaur extinctions?

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

> > Now that's impressive. From 'insects may have used chemical weapons during 
> > the Mesozoic' to 'insects may have helped drive dinosaurs to extinction'. 
> > An olympic pole-vaulter would be envious of such a leap.

wasn't that the premise behind the book "Dust" a while back?  the insect 
populations undergo periodic drops, causing mass extinctions by the chaos of 
other critters (ie spiders and bats) trying to fill insect niches.

> And who thinks of the poor ammonites and mosasaurs and coccolithophores and 
> bennettites and whatnots?

side effects/casualties, obviously!  they died off because there were no 
more dinosaurs.
:D

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