The team also combined livestock and wild herbivore dung mass data from surveys at 760 dryland sites worldwide, representing independent measurements of herbivory, to generate high-resolution maps.

Shutterstock What would happen if all animals on Earth were herbivores? – Molly, age 9, Melbourne Thanks for the great question, Molly! We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the ...

Scholars and schoolchildren alike have generally classified animals by the foods they eat: carnivores eat meat; browsers consume flowering plants, conifers and shrubs; and grazers focus on grasses.

In the wild, herbivores are often seen as the peaceful grazers of the animal kingdom—gentle giants simply trying to surv ...

Hadrosaurs, a kind of duck-billed dinosaur, are among the most common herbivores of the Cretaceous period. But new research suggests that actually, these animals also chowed down on crustaceans.

The team also combined livestock and wild herbivore dung mass data from surveys at 760 dryland sites worldwide, representing independent measurements of herbivory, to generate high-resolution maps.