Herbivores are those animals that mainly consume plant food. The animals form a backbone to global ecosystems since they determine the landscapes, recycle nutrients, disperse seeds, and ensure the ...

Scientists have long been mystified about how animals who munch on plants in Yellowstone National Park all get enough food to eat. Animals all living in the same habitat and eating the same foods ...

Mitchell G. Nye-Wood works in a lab group that receives funding from the Australian Research Council. We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the planet. That’s because making room for ...

Scientists have studied the extinction of mega-herbivores -- plant-eating animals that weighed more than one ton -- that occurred approx. 12,000 years ago. The scientists reached the conclusion that, ...

Animals are living things. This means that they need to get nutrition so that they can stay alive. While plants get their nutrition through their roots from the soil they are planted in, animals need ...

Secrets regarding the spread of the world's grasslands — which proved vital to countless species of grazing animals and may have influenced humanity's evolution — have now been uncovered in fossil ...

Fossilized dinosaur feces are challenging some basic assumptions about dinosaur eating habits. Hadrosaurs, a kind of duck-billed dinosaur, are among the most common herbivores of the Cretaceous period ...

Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around the world. Their study, ...