herbivorous
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As ecologist Doug Tallamy has chronicled, over 90% of herbivorous insects specialize on one or a few native plant lineages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The region hosts the world's second-largest population of dugongs -- herbivorous marine mammals known as "sea cows" that are listed as vulnerable -- with an estimated 5,000 to 7,500 individuals.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
The findings place it close to the earliest roots of the European herbivorous dinosaur group Rhabdodontidae.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 3, 2026
Therizinosaurs were a group of either herbivorous or omnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous Period, which began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
In all, of the world’s 148 big wild terrestrial herbivorous mammals—the candidates for domestication—only 14 passed the test.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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