Detailed livestock models are important for land-use planning, disaster relief and food insecurity. Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around ...

Herbivores are those animals that mainly consume plant food. The animals form a backbone to global ecosystems since they determine the landscapes, recycle nutrients, disperse seeds, and ensure the ...

A newly discovered 300-million-year-old meat-eating mammal ancestor is the oldest known member of a line that gave rise to rhinoceros-size herbivores. The lizardlike animal, dubbed Eocasea martini, ...

Scientists have studied the extinction of mega-herbivores -- plant-eating animals that weighed more than one ton -- that occurred approx. 12,000 years ago. The scientists reached the conclusion that, ...

We quantified indirect effects of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on ground-dwelling herpetofauna and invertebrates in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, USA. We placed cover boards at 12 ...

A two-year long project between Silver Creek Materials and the Dallas Zoo has finally come into fruition with the launch of “Zoo Poo” – an organic compost made of manure from herbivore animals at the ...

Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around the world. Their new study, recently published in Nature Food, reveals a strong positive relationship ...