Research suggests more than 180 dinosaurs🦕🌿 preferred a plant-based diet, but it’s quite hard to put a precise number on it, says Paul Barrett, a paleontology researcher at the Natural History Museum in London.
in order to swallow high-energy foods whole. Bigger guts also tend to be a better fit for larger animals, which is one of the reasons why so many herbivorous dinosaurs were also the biggest in general.Clearly, not all dinosaurs were created equal. And not only are the different features of herbivorous dinosaurs distinct from what scholars see in carnivorous dinosaurs, says Button, but they also remind us of the breadth of diverse ways to exist as a plant-eating dinosaur.
“This unpicks the mechanisms that support diverse communities through evolutionary time,” says Button. “Also showing that some of the same ecological forces were patterning animal communities in the Mesozoic as today.”Regardless of whether we're talking about herbivores today or in the Age of Dinosaurs, most animals tend to eat plants. So if we don't understand what the plant-eaters are doing, says Barrett, we're missing a major part of that equation.
But, paradoxically, plant-eating is also the more-difficult path from an evolutionary standpoint. Although it's hard to catch animals to eat them, that's the hardest part about being a carnivore.
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