This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

Microscopic particles of plastic have been found across the Earth, from the clouds over Mount Fuji to the bottom of the ...

A 307-million-year-old tetrapod, Tyrannoroter heberti, is one of the earliest known plant-eaters on land. Its tiny teeth reshaped ecosystems and paved the way for humans’ plant-based meals.

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

According to the researchers, the fossil represents an early shift in diet that helped shape modern terrestrial ecosystems.

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...