Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction

eldavojohn writes "Everyone's got their favorite theories of Dinosaur extinction, but new speculation is rampant in a book that gives cause to believe it may have been disease-carrying insects. Due to the length of their slow and eventual extinction (the 'K-T Boundary'), it is argued that this would more likely be attributed to the spread of disease and the rise of parasitic insects like ticks or biting flies. Are our immune systems the only reason any animals survived?"

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Well Im no doctor but...

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I was unaware that the 'dinos' went extinct. They seem to have evolved and some species have gone to dodo bird land but many are still here. I was also under the impression that species evolve and go extinct every day. Here's my completly uneducated theory; As the world got more crowded, there was not enough room for the bigger species to live/eat/hunt. So they died off or evolved to be smaller. But that's probably too simple of a theory to justify any government grants or sell vaccinations. Either that or they all got real sad and cried to death.