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

A fast-moving ancient crocodile ancestor gets a name honoring the physics teacher who inspired its discoverer.

Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, the earliest known terrestrial vertebrate that evolved to eat plants. Described from a fossil that dates back 307 million years, it's become the first of its group to have ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

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Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question.

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 ...

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

This particular species of pantylid (dubbed Tyrannoroter heberti after its discoverer) existed 307 million years ago and harbored some surprises within its tiny skull. Using a CT scan, researchers ...

According to the researchers, the fossil represents an early shift in diet that helped shape modern terrestrial ecosystems.

“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 ...