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

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

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

A 307-million-year-old skull from Nova Scotia is overturning a core assumption about when animals first began eating plants.

“This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies,” said Arjan Mann of the Field Museum in Chicago, a co-lead author of the study. “It shows that experimentation with herbivory ...

The newly discovered 307-million-year-old skull of a Tyrannoroter heberti has created a buzz in the scientific community, as researchers say it may belong to one of the earliest known herbivorous ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

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

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 ...

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