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

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...

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

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

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 ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

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

Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.

The 307-million-year-old skull, discovered in Canada, may have belonged to one of the earliest known vegetarian animals, ...