herbivore
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In May, it was revealed that a different type of long-necked herbivore dinosaur - the nagatitan - had been identified by scientists from remains dug up in Thailand.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Guillermo Deferrari, of Ushuaia's scientific research center, downplayed the landfill theory, explaining that the colilargo is herbivore and lives off seeds and fruit found in forested ecosystems, not in dumps, where the common rat feeds.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Students must do a training stint in each of four main categories — carnivore, herbivore, bird and primate — so they may wind up working with animals they find unpleasant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
The newest — described on Thursday by a team of researchers in the journal PeerJ — is Lokiceratops rangiformis, a five-ton herbivore with spectacular, curving brow horns and huge, bladed spikes on its meter-long frill.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Rahel, standing on the car seat, had grown out of the Plymouth window like the loose, flailing horn of a car-shaped herbivore.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Mr. Bond guides readers through ancient depictions of animals, including the gorgeous array of prehistoric cave paintings, with their mixture of dangerous predators and powerful herbivores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We know, based on all the specific scientific studies and research that has occurred on Catalina, that we can’t do full island restoration work until the invasive herbivores are removed,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"They're herbivores, so they feed on lots of different vegetation, so you'll often see piles of sticks with the bark chewed off."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
These fossils come from the Morrison Formation* in the United States and were used to reconstruct a detailed food web, showing how plants, herbivores, and carnivores were linked through feeding relationships.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
The world holds only about 148 species of large wild mammalian terrestrial herbivores or omnivores, the large mammals that could he considered candidates for domestication.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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