A football-size creature may have been among the earliest plant-eating land animals

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...
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Fossil skull discovery reveals when land animals first learned to eat plants

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...

Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants

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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This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land

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 ...
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These Biorobots Are About To Walk Like Earth’s First Land Animals

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Over 390 million years ago, the ancestors of modern land ...