But unlike the first study, which tied worldwide extinction rates to climate change, the OSU-led team identified human encroachment and poaching as the biggest threats to big, plant-eating animals ...

Big plant-eating birds that dwell with others on islands live longest Date: January 20, 2010 Source: Cornell University Summary: Large, social, vegetarian, island-dwelling birds live longer than ...

That means elephants, wildebeests and other big plant eaters may be helping, not hindering, our carbon storage efforts. An Asian elephant in Kerala, India.

The discovery by Cisneros and his colleagues "provides novel insights into early tooth differentiation" among therapsids, as well as the evolution of plant-eating "and its accompanying complex ...

Fires were a rarity. But without the suppressive mouths of the big plant-eaters, trees grew unchecked, producing a combo of vegetation you just don’t see today. Large numbers of temperate ...

Despite the near-extinction of bison in North American in the 19th and 20th centuries, these big plant-eaters and others have persisted in the park region since around 238 B.C., according to the ...

Plant-eating dinosaurs may have evolved to have different ... Meanwhile, the Hypsilophodon skull shows that it did not have big muscles, but instead rearranged its muscles to bite more efficiently ...