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

The findings place it close to the earliest roots of the European herbivorous dinosaur group Rhabdodontidae.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 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

After the Spanish arrived, the bears’ consumption of meat more than doubled—increasing from 10% to 26%, with one-third of that coming from livestock—but they remained mostly herbivorous.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 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