George Poinar began collecting amber specimins over thirty years ago, but it was only recently that he, Roberta Poinar, and the rest of his research team astounded the scientific community with the news that they had obtained live DNA strands from an insect over 40 million years old. The news was s[...]
Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex - with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons - was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as "What Bugged the Dinosaurs?" reveals, T. rex was not the only killer. George and Roberta Poinar[...]