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

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

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 ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

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

“This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies,” said Arjan Mann of the Field Museum in Chicago, a co-lead author of the study. “It shows that experimentation with herbivory ...

Madagascar forest cannot fully recover naturally because invasive strawberry guava creates nutrient poor soil.

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

Rice University biologist Amy Dunham has spent decades studying the mountainous rainforests of Madagascar's Ranomafana ...

A 307-million-year-old skull from Nova Scotia is overturning a core assumption about when animals first began eating plants.

Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.