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

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

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

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 plant-eating land vertebrates, representing ...

“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 ...

Could you make it in the swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period? The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, ...

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A study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species -- a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous -- colonized new areas in ...