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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, a plant-eating creature that lived 315 million years ago during the ...

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

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...

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.

“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 ...

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

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By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known ...