herbivorous

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The region hosts the world's second-largest population of dugongs -- herbivorous marine mammals known as "sea cows" that are listed as vulnerable -- with an estimated 5,000 to 7,500 individuals.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

Therizinosaurs were a group of either herbivorous or omnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous Period, which began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

The contents of coprolites from the first large herbivorous dinosaurs, the long-necked sauropods, surprised the researchers.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Known in Argentina as carpinchos, capybaras are gentle and herbivorous, but they are hard to miss.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

That plant carbon goes on to form the body of the herbivorous animals that eat the plants, and of the carnivorous animals that eat those herbivorous animals.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond