Since iguanas are herbivorous, this first finding illuminated the path for interpreting other dinosaurs as plant-eating. “Essentially, do their teeth look like those of living herbivorous reptiles, ...

Some of Earth's most successful herbivores may have had hundreds of thousands of teeth in their lifetime. The ornithopods are a group of dinosaurs that include Iguanodon, Hypsilophodon and their ...

Austrian scientists have discovered that the herbivorous dinosaur used its long, whip-like tail as a powerful weapon.

while herbivores usually have broad, flat teeth that help them grind up plant matter. And this is how the Bristol scientists conducted their study. The three main lineages of dinosaur had ...

Pachycephalosaurus, the delicately built, 15-foot-long, dome-headed dinosaur that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, is a staple of children’s books and popular culture—one usually ...

It consists of two intertwined skeletons — an upstart mammal sinking its teeth into a much larger ... Repenomamus was attacking an herbivorous dinosaur three times its size.

The findings, published today in Palaeontology, show that these early herbivores likely eventually starved to death in old age, the vegetation taking its toll on their teeth. "I first studied the ...

and it died with its teeth clamped upon the herbivorous Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, a dinosaur three times its size. These two species in the fossil couldn’t be more different. Psittacosaurus ...

their jaws interlock more tightly and they build up more replacement teeth, making them more effective herbivores.” “We also see this happen in the horned dinosaurs, which include species like ...