Sentences with phrase «in herbivorous»

An important clue has now been uncovered — not in Triceratops and its relatives, but in herbivorous mammals.

Isotope evidence was corroborated with morphological comparison of Gastornis bill anatomy relative to that of extant birds, which suggested that the large muscle attachment area in Gastornis jaws is similar to that found in herbivorous species.

Not exact matches

Their herbivorous diet is low in energy and lacks much of the nutrients needed — like fats and protein — for a balanced meal.

Walch and her brother Kale (yes, Kale) opened their vegan butcher shop The Herbivorous Butcher just one month ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and now they have a line out the door every weekend.

Herbivorous «lobster» rolls and «crab» cakes use hearts of palm in a way that will win hearts everywhere.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

The dinosaur, first described in 2015 as a bizarre, herbivorous theropod, is actually a primitive ornithischian, according to the study — a placement that would strengthen the authors» argument for rewriting the entire family tree.

A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

As a result, the researchers suspect that the predatory theropods came from the mainland in order to hunt the herbivorous Europasaurus.

Numerous fossilized species were examined in the study — from the earliest amphibians to the largest herbivorous dinosaurs and mammoths.

By observing reef communities in Fiji's Votua Marine Reserve, Rasher and his team discovered that sharks do in fact influence plant growth on the reefs — by scaring the herbivorous fish away from eating them.

Many hundreds of herbivorous species have switched to novel, sometimes toxic, food sources introduced by humans and have come to specialize in consuming those new resources.

Supervised by Prof. Konrad Fiedler, our project at the University of Bayreuth on the diversity and role of herbivorous insects started in spring of 1999.

Other herd traces can be found in the Purgatoire River valley in Colorado, where trackways made by herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs are overlaid by delicate three - toed prints made by packs of meat eaters that were trailing the herd.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

Aphids, which are herbivorous, provide ants with molasses as food in exchange of hygienic care and protection from predators.

The toothy dino belongs to a group of herbivorous, bipedal dinosaurs common in the Cretaceous Period.

As bears, their digestive systems are designed to break down meat and small amounts of plant material, yet in the wild and in captivity these bears are exclusively herbivorous.

One hypothesis suggests that Neandertals were rigid in their dietary choice, targeting large herbivorous mammals, such as horse, bison and mammoths, while modern humans also exploited a wider diversity of dietary resources, including fish.

Additionally, the overall composition of species changed significantly; carnivorous mollusks appeared to fare particularly well, increasing in prevalence at all sites, while their herbivorous relatives often decreased in abundance.

The results are surprising, for even in the presence of many different herbivorous animals, plants produced the same amount of biomass as in simulations with a low diversity of herbivore species.

This idea helps explain how we started out as a small, apelike, herbivorous species 6 million years ago in tropical Africa, and after a history of origin and extinction of species, what's left today is us: a single species all over the planet with an astonishing array of abilities to adjust.

The new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that science should be used to revise current fisheries practices for herbivorous fish.

The focus of the study was the skull of Erlikosaurus andrewsi, a 3 - 4m (10 - 13ft) large herbivorous dinosaur called a therizinosaur, which lived more than 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now Mongolia.

It further shows that some docodontans had a diet with a substantial herbivorous component, distinctive from the faunivorous diets previously reported in other members of this clade.

When herbivorous insects ingest these glycosylated toxins while feeding on plants, sugar - cleaving gut enzymes called glycosidases cleave these sugars from the defensive substances and the toxins are released in the midgut.

This sand was suspected to be involved in protecting against herbivorous insects, but this was only tested in 2016.

Plants produce a large arsenal of toxic compounds in order fend off herbivorous insects.

Tritylodontids lived in the Jurassic era and proliferated worldwide, but were thought to have died out as herbivorous mammals took over their ecological role in the late Jurassic.

These duck - billed, herbivorous dinosaurs were probably the most abundant large animals in Alaska.

The variables interact and influence plant nutritional quality, which in turn affects the herbivorous grasshoppers and the shared predator — the spiders.

Entomologist Matan Shelomi, affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, spent years studying the gut microbiomes of herbivorous stick insects (Phasmatodea).

In the process, we were able to determine that the extinct relatives of today's humans primarily fed on large herbivorous mammals such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses,» Prof. Bocherens said.

The long - necked and herbivorous Dreadnoughtus schrani, whose name means «fears nothing,» measured 85 feet (26 meters) in length from the tip of its small head to the end of its tail and weighed 65 tons — about seven times heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex, said Drexel University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who led the excavation.

They fill the ecological niches occupied in other places by rodents and rabbits — some live in the desert, others in the rainforest, some are herbivorous, while others dine mostly on insects.

While the outlook for reefs in the fact of today's rapid global warming is exceptionally serious, the authors provide remedial options for management interventions that will increase reef resilience, including: a) reduce the harvest of herbivorous fish to sustainable levels, b) protect sharks and other top predators, c) manage all aspects of water quality, and d) diminish direct anthropogenic impacts and stressors.

I am specifically interested in behavioral adaptations of herbivorous insects that may have adaptive functions in foraging, and have begun exploring nocturnal herbivory as one potential mechanism.

My own research expertise is in host selection behaviour of herbivorous insects, and particularly insect olfaction.

The higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide throughout the PETM decreased the nutritional value of plant material, however, leading to a temporary decrease in the size of some herbivorous insects and mammals.

Evidence for herbivorous cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) in Goyet Cave, Belgium: Implications for paleodietary reconstruction of fossil bears using amino acid δ15N approaches.

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

In my opinion, I believe that the synergetics effects of eating the diet that our species was made to eat (yeah, science already can show as that we are herbivorous) can easily handle that amount of plant - based saturated fats.

What you have to do to seek them out is find areas in any of Monster Hunter World's maps with Herbivorous creatures, like Aptonoth in the Ancient Forest or Kelbi in the Wildspire Waste and Coral Highlands.

The wild ancestors of small herbivorous pets lived in grasslands, so grass is their natural environment.

Sure, dogs are in the order Carnivora, but so are giant pandas, which are almost exclusively herbivorous.

Even their ancient cousin the wolf is omnivorous, engaging in the eating of plant matter with similar acts of grazing on grasses, as well as eating the plant matter out of the guts of their herbivorous prey.

Because hamsters are mostly herbivorous (the only animal food that your pet would eat in the wild would be the occasional insect), they are well - suited to digesting plant foods, including moderate amounts of fresh fruits like grapes.

Pet ownership would be far simpler if that were the case, but, in reality, not all herbivorous animals have the same dietary needs.

Assists in re-hydrating herbivorous reptiles and also provides essential calories to injured or sick reptiles.

Another theory is that wild dogs would roll in animal carcasses or the droppings from herbivorous animals, in order to disguise their own smell from prey when hunting.