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

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

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.

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

A new fossil discovery in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is changing scientific views on early plant-eating animals. Named ...

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

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

“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 ...

The newly discovered 307-million-year-old skull of a Tyrannoroter heberti has created a buzz in the scientific community, as researchers say it may belong to one of the earliest known herbivorous ...

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 ...