herbivore

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Even so, Tyrannoroter was unlikely to have been a strict herbivore.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 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 medium-sized herbivore once roamed the floodplains of what is now the island's south-west coast.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 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

For a peace-loving herbivore, he looked downright murderous.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan