Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago ...

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had teeth specialized for eating plants, making it one of the oldest species to ...

Tyrannoroter had specialized teeth to pulverize plants It lived 307 million years ago during Carboniferous Period Its skull was found in Canada's Nova Scotia province Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists ...

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

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

A chance discovery on Holy Island reveals how a 350-million-year-old marine fossil became part of medieval legend.

“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 may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

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 ...

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

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

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