Sentences with phrase «largest herbivorous»

Scarus guacamaia, the largest herbivorous fish in the Atlantic, uses all three provinces of the Mesoamerican Reef in the course of its life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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Pareiasaurs were large, herbivorous reptiles that were common across Pangea during the Middle and Late Permian, about 266 - 252 million years ago.

That layer also contained numerous fossils of Maiasaura, a type of large, herbivorous duck - billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur (SN: 8/9/14, p. 20).

Based on the shape of their teeth and jaws, large plant - eating dinosaurs are generally thought to have been exclusively herbivorous.

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.

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).

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

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

There were herbivorous, insectivorous, and carnivorous forms, some fairly large.

While people can benefit from large amounts of fruit (we're largely herbivorous), our dogs are closer to the carnivorous side of the spectrum, so they should consume smaller amounts of plant foods.