Sentences with phrase «giant herbivores»
Bocherens comments, «The presence of giant herbivores thus not only contributed to a higher species diversity, it also had an effect on the global climate.»
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The data showed that although sea urchins negatively affected giant kelp by grazing on it, no direct link between kelp and other herbivores existed.
«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).
«This once was a world that had ten times more whales; twenty times more anadromous fish, like salmon; double the number of seabirds; and ten times more large herbivores — giant sloths and mastodons and mammoths,» says Roman.
The giant panda gut did not harbor plant - degrading bacteria such as Ruminococcaceae and Bacteroides that are typically enriched in other herbivores, but instead was predominated by Escherichia / Shigella and Streptococcus.
For giant dinosaurs like the 25 - ton Diplodocus — an iconic long - necked herbivore — feeding all that flesh was a full - time job.
Again, all while also fending off raptors and T - Rex and giant alligators and giant scorpions and dire wolves and dozens of other creatures (including plenty of friendly herbivores, of course).